{"id":30240,"date":"2020-05-09T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T07:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=30240"},"modified":"2020-05-09T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T07:01:01","slug":"construction-work-resumes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/construction-work-resumes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah! Our Porta-Potty Is Back. Construction Work Resumes. Sheltering at Home Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our new Blomberg sliding glass doors have been installed as construction resumes at our house. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sheltering at Home Week 8. May 8, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great news. Our porta-potty is back!<\/p>\n

There it is, taking up space on the street in front of our house, looking ugly as only a porta-potty knows how to be ugly.<\/p>\n

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Our porta-potty is back. Hallelujah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For Jon and me, as construction work resumes on our house remodel projects, that porta-potty is a sight for sore eyes.<\/p>\n

Our remodel<\/a> began way, way back on November 1. It came to a sharp halt on March 17, when shelter-at-home orders went into effect in our county.<\/p>\n

This week, construction work resumes here, as six San Francisco Bay Area counties cautiously loosen<\/a> their guidelines.<\/p>\n

For us Newhalls, that means our precarious, twenty-foot-high deck is finally getting a proper railing. It also means that our new sliding glass doors are in place — and at last our gorgeous sylvan setting is coming into view from our dining room.<\/p>\n

Our Coronavirus Companions: Lumber, Shovel, Drills<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Soon, very soon, the stuff that’s been cluttering our living room and keeping us company since November — the stacks of lumber, the shovel, the compressor, the saw horses, the clamps, the drills and the dusty batt of insulation — will go away. The new hardwood flooring will go in.<\/p>\n

San Francisco and its surrounding counties are doing it right, in my opinion. We were the first in the U.S. to implement shelter-at-home orders. And now the coronavirus numbers are looking good enough to let some businesses get back to business — such as construction, and outdoor enterprises like nurseries and landscapers.<\/p>\n

My Bay Area Bias Kicks In<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Bear with me. I’m now going to let fly with my Bay Area biases. The San Francisco area, like the state of California, is a great place in many ways. It’s off-the-charts beautiful, for starters. But it’s also got a lot of thoughtful elected officials — conscientious people making tough decisions.<\/p>\n

More about living in a construction zone at “Dining in a Construction Zone. Sheltering at Home Day 7.”<\/a>\u00a0 For a glimpse of California in May, see “Look What Happened in My Front Yard Over the Weekend.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Our deck will finally get a proper fence and railing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our contractor posted these guidelines next to our front door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Work on our remodel has been suspended for weeks. So, as construction work resumes, a porta-potty out front is a sight for sore eyes. Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[1168,2179,34,1188,282,2182,2184],"class_list":["post-30240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","tag-california","tag-coronavirus","tag-dont-miss","tag-house","tag-politics","tag-remodel","tag-sheltering-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}