{"id":175,"date":"2011-06-04T20:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-06-08T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T19:31:42","slug":"collecting-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/2011\/collecting-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Material"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my goals for the front yard project is to use re-purpose reclaimed, recycled, and rescued materials.\u00c2\u00a0 These are found and free materials that would otherwise go to a landfill.<\/p>\n

The immediate challenge this presents is that I could not create a design for the pathway until I had materials.\u00c2\u00a0 The opportunity<\/em> this creates is the fun to always be on the lookout for possible materials and to keep an open mind.\u00c2\u00a0 Construction sites, alleys, areas where materials have been illegally dumped, neighbors who have spare materials…every trip in the car becomes a journey in discovery.<\/p>\n

Collecting potentially suitable materials invariably involved Dave’s participation (and we collected a lot of heavy material).\u00c2\u00a0 Without both his physical and emotional support at these and so many other times this project would not be nearly as enjoyable to pursue.<\/em><\/p>\n

Slate<\/h3>\n

The first material I collected was 12″x12″ slate from my friend Elizabeth in Laguna Beach.\u00c2\u00a0 When she said I could take the slate she cheerily instructed, “Create something beautiful!”<\/p>\n

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Broken concrete (“rip rap”) for mounds near sidewalk<\/h3>\n

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River rock for decoration<\/h3>\n

Madeline was selling her house and offered us all these beautiful smooth river rocks.\u00c2\u00a0 Note the Jeep sitting hard on the rear springs bearing the weight of the stones.\u00c2\u00a0 This was neither the first or last time the Jeep so capably handled an awkward and heavy load.<\/p>\n

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More rip rap<\/h3>\n

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Pink Concrete:\u00c2\u00a0 The Mother Lode!<\/h3>\n

Dave’s Jeep, my Saab and finally a few trips with Orijano’s trailer were used to collect the rosy concrete chunks.<\/p>\n

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One of my goals for the front yard project is to use re-purpose reclaimed, recycled, and rescued materials.\u00c2\u00a0 These are found and free materials that would otherwise go to a landfill. The immediate challenge this presents is that I could not create a design for the pathway until I had materials.\u00c2\u00a0 The opportunity this creates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-yard-patio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellarchoice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}