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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nit took quite an effort to scrape way up there at the peak; i have a bit of a fear of being high on a ladder, but i managed to get it all scraped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n here’s the whole thing, pre-painting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n my hosta stick garden that day, aug. 1st. it was already looking much better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ta da! i finally finished it up on the 9th. the white windows on the right look like no big deal, but they look so great after being so chipped. i had thought of painting that triangle red; last year i bought the red paint. it looks especially nice because of the red swing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n here’s the hosta garden today; they’re starting to bloom all over the place, nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n after i’d spent a few hours scraping the house on the 1st, i had people over for a long boat ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n i’d never seen this house on the other side of the lake. i think it’s awesome with so many windows plus the glass-enclosed railing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n this is what they were looking at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n a lovely time was had by all, and we stayed out til after dark and enjoyed the lake at night, one of my favorite things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ok then,<\/p>\n\n\n\n end of summer g.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i started the month working on the back windows\/door. It had been on my to-do list last summer and it never happened; it seemed kind of overwhelming. i did scrape the windows a little, but that’s it. So on August 1st, here’s how the windows looked when i finished scraping. Yeah, old and bad. it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[606,33,605],"class_list":["post-17090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hosta-stick-garden","tag-lake","tag-painting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6JLYy-4rE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17102,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17090\/revisions\/17102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/graceuncensored.com\/WordPress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/a2.jpg\")
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