{"id":126,"date":"2012-09-11T22:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=126"},"modified":"2017-07-10T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T09:49:23","slug":"its-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 11th September 2012 – IT’S RAINING!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

First time for 10 days as it happens, and aren’t the plants (and Yours Truly) grateful for it?<\/p>\n

I woke up at about 05:00 due to the mouse in the roof doing his usual clog-dance, and I could hear a pitter-patter of rain on the skylights here. <\/p>\n

That was it until lunchtime when we had a another quick 5 minutes or so, but this evening at about 22:00 we had a torrential downpour and wasn’t it pleasant to hear the water cascading into my water butts?<\/p>\n

What was even nicer was that on the lean-to the water was cascading down the roof, into the guttering and out of the hole where it’s supposed to go. I can’t wait to install the water butts and to start collecting all of this.<\/p>\n

\"collapsed<\/a>And so I went back out on my wall, but I’m not convinced at all about what I’m doing. <\/p>\n

Although I made some progress today, it’s definitely not going to be finished by the weekend, much to my dismay, and not by a long way either. It’s taking ages.<\/p>\n

The problem is that all of the sand-mud mortar behind the large cracks has totally flaked away so it all needs to be raked out completely. <\/p>\n

This means that some of the stones are loose so they need to be prised out, something that causes the wall to sag a little where you’ve just cemented – because you start from the top and work down, of course.
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You then need to find a slightly larger stone which you then hammer into the gap until it’s solid – which causes the bit of wall that you’ve just done to rise up – and then wedge in with loose stones, and cement it in.<\/p>\n

And then of course, the bit that you did earlier that you moved about just now needs re-cementing.<\/p>\n

And this is how it goes – it’s taking ages, but then again if it had been so easy it would have been done properly long ago. <\/p>\n

Then of course I need to keep raking away all of the sand and cement that falls out.<\/p>\n

mean, it’s not as if it’s difficult – just time-consuming. So I’ve no idea when it might be finished. <\/p>\n

The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival started in Fredericton today so I clearly won’t be going to that.<\/p>\n

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First time for 10 days as it happens, and aren’t the plants (and Yours Truly) grateful for it? I woke up at about 05:00 due to the mouse in the roof doing his usual clog-dance, and I could hear a pitter-patter of rain on the skylights here. That was it until lunchtime when we had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[1624,7309,2560,5565,5514,411,5517,423,5366,3070,745,286,782,2274],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-canada-2","tag-collapsed-lean-to","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-fredericton","tag-guttering","tag-harvest-jazz-and-blues-festival","tag-lean-to","tag-les-guis","tag-mouse-in-the-roof","tag-pointing","tag-rainstorm","tag-stone-wall","tag-water-butt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8953,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/8953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}