{"id":8288,"date":"2015-04-15T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=8288"},"modified":"2015-04-15T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T12:38:16","slug":"halfway-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=8288","title":{"rendered":"Halfway there"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>To May that is. April has been flying by.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Erin has been having kids to play with here. DJ, Michael&#8217;s son and Serenity, who is M&#8217;s niece. It&#8217;s been fun watching them play together, even with the age difference.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday I had to cut Rudy a\u00a0<em>very big check<\/em> for\u00a0\u00bd of the work done on the septic system. Normally he wouldn&#8217;t make such a request, but due to the enviro department&#8217;s interference, this job has taken much longer than planned. Damned Enviro Hippies!<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Beth and company&#8217;s river cruise has been somewhat of a disaster, or at least in my opinion from her description. I think the group consists of about 8 people and right now the boat is parked in a cement company&#8217;s docking area. Sounds dreamy, right? I hope the rest of the trip is 110% guys.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Old Fartz today. I have to say that while there&#8217;s a lot of interesting people in the group, there&#8217;s also a lot of drama involved. All via email and none of it happens at the lunches, but the drama is just stupid.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">More septic pics below.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8289\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8289\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1690.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8289 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1690-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1690\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1690-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1690-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1690-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two backhoes moving tons of dirt. It&#8217;s amazing how much spare dirt I had lying around!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8290\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8290\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1691.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8290 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1691-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1691\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1691-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1691-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1691-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After disconnecting the old septic drain field, they run a pipe to it to keep the new tanks running while they construct a new drain field.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8291\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1692.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8291 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1692-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1692\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1692-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1692-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1692-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new system, and updated one after the enviro department interfered, is a mound system. It should give us a 4 foot rise that we will plan with something to lessen the visual impact.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8292\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8292\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1693.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8292 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1693-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1693\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1693-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1693-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1693-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8292\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the enviro dept. stopped work on the trench and sand system, we had 4 trenches to fill and it seemed like the perfect place to bury the old septic tank and surrounding soil.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8293\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8293\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1694.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8293 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1694-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1694\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1694-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1694-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1694-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">If you enlarge the pictures (by clicking on them) you can see that the old tank was cinder block construction. Surprisingly the tank was still fairly tight and had no leaks. The top was massive and appeared to be one solid piece of concrete about 8 inches thick.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To May that is. April has been flying by. Erin has been having kids to play with here. DJ, Michael&#8217;s son and Serenity, who is M&#8217;s niece. It&#8217;s been fun watching them play together, even with the age difference. Yesterday I had to cut Rudy a\u00a0very big check for\u00a0\u00bd of the work done on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=8288\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Halfway there<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8294,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions\/8294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}