{"id":27,"date":"2006-07-01T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T20:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=27"},"modified":"2006-07-01T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T20:13:01","slug":"ignore-this-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Ignore this post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post that follows is, as far as I can figure out, entirely pointless.<\/strong>
\nIt has nothing to do with books, and it involves no stories of any detectable drama. I inform you only because I promised to, yesterday (Walker: a synonym for useless, unwanted integrity).
\nI live on a hillside, and a number of my neighbors have retaining walls running along their neighbors\u2019 driveways, as I do. The difference between my retaining wall and any of my neighbors\u2019 is that mine is much larger, and potentially more expensive to repair.
\nSo I was distressed when a toolbox-sized chunk cracked itself out of the concrete this spring. I told my brothers, Moloch and Baal, and they offered to come up (and down, respectively) and see if we could repair it ourselves.
\nSince that time I\u2019ve also noticed a tendency for rainwater to run into my basement, along the side that has not, for some reason, been equipped with rain gutters. Someone (and you know who you are) told me that putting up gutters, especially on a straight shot along one side of a house, is an easy afternoon job for a couple guys. So I asked M. and B. if they\u2019d care to help me with that too.
\nThey agreed. I bought supplies, borrowed a ladder at work to supplement the extension ladder I already own, and they came yesterday for the big work day.
\nHere\u2019s where the story gets (even more) dull: Everything went great. We used patching cement to repair the wall, and the final result appears acceptable (at least as a temporary repair). We overcame some problems with awkward angles (since my ladders weren\u2019t the ideal sizes or shapes), and the gutters went up handsomely. I don\u2019t think professionals could have done that any better.
\nWe did it all in a day. I provided the meals and basically hewed wood and drew water, leaving M. and B. to do the manly work.
\nThey went home this morning, to resume their various duties.
\nAnd that\u2019s it. It was a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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