**6<\/p>\n
Soon after the original porch and patio were built in 1977,\u00a0 we added cement steps from the north side of the patio down to the small brick patio just outside the family room door.\u00a0 We used big rocks and many bags of Sakrete\u00a0 and planted ground covers on each side.<\/p>\n
When the \u201cwest wing\u201d was added in 1981,\u00a0 these steps were blocked, so we filled the area between the west wing and the cement patio with dirt and planted a garden and a globe arborvitae in the corner.\u00a0 As plants tend to do,\u00a0 everything got too big for the area and we wanted more patio space.\u00a0 The garden became topped with cement patio blocks.\u00a0 Very low maintenance and more space for chairs and the gas grill.<\/p>\n
Now, however, the sewer line for the new powder room needs the way cleared to go into the basement.\u00a0 The plumber wants to join the new line into the old cast-iron pipe with a\u00a0 \u201cy\u201d joint.\u00a0 To make a long story short, the builder spent two and a half hours on Tuesday afternoon applying a jack-hammer to our cement steps.\u00a0 They are history.\u00a0\u00a0 Our Indian Summer might have ended last night.\u00a0 We woke up this morning (Friday,\u00a0 November 11, 2011) with frost over hill and dale, including our yard.<\/p>\n
Since this is Veteran\u2019s Day, I sent a\u00a0 note to our son-in-law, Joe, a former Marine, to tell him how proud we are of him and his accomplishments.\u00a0 Thank you, too, to all Veterans, including my husband, who served in the Army before we were married.<\/p>\n
The weather from last Saturday until today was very nice bonus\u00a0 days, which has come to an end.\u00a0 It is cold with precipitation some where between snow and rain, so let\u2019s call it snain.\u00a0 This is, of course the day the builder has brought back the little caterpillar and is back filling the south wall and around the west and north sides of the new section.\u00a0 The powder room and spa room sections are now filled with gravel and tamped down.\u00a0 Our question is:\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t the waste line from the powder room be laid down before the gravel?<\/p>\n
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**6 Soon after the original porch and patio were built in 1977,\u00a0 we added cement steps from the north side of the patio down to the small brick patio just outside the family room door.\u00a0 We used big rocks and many bags of Sakrete\u00a0 and planted ground covers on each side. When the \u201cwest wing\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}