{"id":174,"date":"2014-07-03T14:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg.ca\/?p=174"},"modified":"2014-07-03T14:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T21:56:41","slug":"house-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/03\/house-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"House = Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help myself, or rather, I enjoy keeping busy with improvement projects in and around the house. \u00a0The lot already has some nice gardens and a grand design is forming in my mind. \u00a0I&#8217;ve done quite a bit of wilderness taming around the edges and have started planting the shrub layer. \u00a0I&#8217;m also letting the lawn go wild as there is no lawn in the vision.<\/p>\n<p>I am in full battle with the deer. \u00a0Turns out they&#8217;ll eat anything, especially new young plants recently placed. \u00a0I&#8217;ve come to the conclusion that fencing the yard is the only winning strategy. \u00a0Now that&#8217;s a multi-year project that I&#8217;ve started with a fence across the back line, almost finished in this picture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg6722705c1a-bsotj.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/536ca-p1010003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg6722705c1a-bsotj.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/536ca-p1010003.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the back fence in place I&#8217;m trying to protect the back yard with temporary barriers and am learning just how difficult it is to keep the deer out.<\/p>\n<p>The other project that I&#8217;ve just started is the replacement of the front porch. \u00a0Today I completed removal of the old rotten deck. \u00a0Tomorrow I&#8217;ll plan the next step and create a Home Depot shopping list for the next trip to Vancouver. \u00a0The new deck will be smaller and surrounded by garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg6722705c1a-bsotj.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b3ad8-p1010004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"http:\/\/ashworthdavidg6722705c1a-bsotj.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/b3ad8-p1010004.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t help myself, or rather, I enjoy keeping busy with improvement projects in and around the house. \u00a0The lot already has some nice gardens and a grand design is forming in my mind. \u00a0I&#8217;ve done quite a bit of wilderness taming around the edges and have started planting the shrub layer. \u00a0I&#8217;m also letting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2014\/07\/03\/house-projects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;House = Projects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashworthdavidg.duckdns.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}