{"id":1098,"date":"2012-05-24T18:38:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conniesmithson.com\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2012-05-24T18:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T22:38:11","slug":"paving-stone-for-the-courtyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/05\/24\/paving-stone-for-the-courtyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Paving stone and other lawn improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I have laid brick in my gardens by myself, I am older and a bit wiser now, so I&#8217;m thinking about hiring some professionals to come and tell me about paving stone for my West courtyard. I just don&#8217;t have the strength nor the knowledge to do such a great job as I have seen online. The stones are so beautifully installed on the ground and the designs are pretty for that yard.<\/p>\n<p>While I was outside looking at all the possibility for that West side of the yard, I got the opinion of my son about landscape lighting installation. I think it would really look nice and compliment the courtyard I&#8217;d like to have built, and also it would keep trespassers off our property, hopefully. That or at least deter them. I&#8217;ve wanted lighting all around the house and in the gardens anyway, and to me any kind of landscaping or home improvement basically raises the property value in some cases. It&#8217;s a win, win situation.<\/p>\n<p>While doing a really intense study of that West yard, I notice that there are bare spots in the lawn that have been there for nearly 20 years now. It&#8217;s in pretty sorry shape, despite of all the time and money I have sunk into grass seed and fertilizer. I think perhaps looking into installing artificial grass. I&#8217;ll have to find out more about the pros and cons of that from professionals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I have laid brick in my gardens by myself, I am older and a bit wiser now, so I&#8217;m thinking about hiring some professionals to come and tell me about paving stone for my West courtyard. I just don&#8217;t have the strength nor the knowledge to do such a great job as I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/2012\/05\/24\/paving-stone-for-the-courtyard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Paving stone and other lawn improvement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[458,529,635,720,749],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-improvements","tag-help-with-matters","tag-lawn-and-garden","tag-outdoors-2","tag-professionals","tag-redecorating"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/conniesmithison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}