{"id":117,"date":"2007-03-19T20:25:34","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T02:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/21\/dry-creek-bed-phase-1\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T23:34:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T05:34:34","slug":"dry-creek-bed-phase-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Dry Creek Bed Phase 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/drycreekbed\/drycreekbed01\/Dry_creek_bed_from_the_top.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft giThumbnail\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/d\/1133-2\/Dry_creek_bed_from_the_top.jpg\" alt=\"Dry creek bed from the top\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Spring Break means another huge landscaping project. This year, we put in a 200 foot long dry creek bed. We are at the lowest point on the road, and we&#8217;ve had a problem with water draining through places we don&#8217;t want it to. We&#8217;ve finally decided to show nature who&#8217;s boss and route the water where <em>we<\/em> want it to go. This involved raising a low area, and more importantly, digging a trench. Luckily I was able to borrow a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobcat.com\/loaders\/choosing\">Bobcat skid-steer loader<\/a> early in the project to get the basic shape of the trench started. This was incredibly helpful to getting the project going, and since I had never driven one before, it was also a rather fun learning experience.<\/p>\n<p>I was also able to borrow a neighbor&#8217;s excellent Kubota tractor, which included a front loader and a box blade. This allowed me to complete the trench and was also instrumental in hauling and spreading the &#8220;river rock&#8221; gravel base and Brazos cobble stone top layer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/drycreekbed\/drycreekbed01\/Digging_the_trench.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/d\/1106-2\/Digging_the_trench.jpg\" alt=\"Digging the trench\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/drycreekbed\/drycreekbed01\/Trench_dirt_used_for_fill.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/d\/1109-2\/Trench_dirt_used_for_fill.jpg\" alt=\"Trench dirt used for fill\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/v\/drycreekbed\/drycreekbed01\/The_topsoil_has_been_spread.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"giThumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/gallery\/d\/1131-2\/The_topsoil_has_been_spread.jpg\" alt=\"The topsoil has been spread\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring Break means another huge landscaping project. This year, we put in a 200 foot long dry creek bed. We are at the lowest point on the road, and we&#8217;ve had a problem with water draining through places we don&#8217;t want it to. We&#8217;ve finally decided to show nature who&#8217;s boss and route the water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucearmstrong.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}