{"id":582,"date":"2009-01-05T08:29:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T06:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2009-01-05T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T15:31:56","slug":"i-suddenly-realised-why-im-so-damned-tired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"I suddenly realised why I&#8217;m so damned tired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emotionally tired, I think, more than physically.<\/p>\n<p>I looked back through some photographs&#8230; we&#8217;ve come a long way, and we did a helluva lot, but it&#8217;s not so obvious if you&#8217;re living it day-by-day &#8212; it&#8217;s much more striking when you look back.<\/p>\n<p>This was the stoep area outside the kitchen door, back in April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1060734r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-583\" title=\"p1060734r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1060734r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1060734r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1060734r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300325r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-584\" title=\"s6300325r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300325r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300325r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300325r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By July, it was looking a lot better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1070562r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-585\" title=\"p1070562r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1070562r-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1070562r-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/p1070562r.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of necessity, Frank paved the bricks at quite a slope. This is good, from a water runoff point of view, but I had to chock the washing machine with a couple of 2x4s, otherwise it would bleat piteously and give up on the spin cycle.<\/p>\n<p>I had planned a platform to keep the machines dry and off the deck, as well as a partition to keep the wind and dust at bay, and a table for sorting and folding the washing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300995r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-594\" title=\"s6300995r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300995r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300995r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300995r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300997r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-595\" title=\"s6300997r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300997r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300997r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300997r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300998r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-596\" title=\"s6300998r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300998r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300998r-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/s6300998r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll move the chest freezer when I have help :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emotionally tired, I think, more than physically. I looked back through some photographs&#8230; we&#8217;ve come a long way, and we did a helluva lot, but it&#8217;s not so obvious if you&#8217;re living it day-by-day &#8212; it&#8217;s much more striking when you look back. This was the stoep area outside the kitchen door, back in April. By July, it was looking a lot better. Of necessity, Frank paved the bricks at quite a slope. This is good, from a water runoff point of view, but I had to chock the washing machine with a couple of 2x4s, otherwise it would bleat&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,23],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house","tag-diy","tag-wouter-does-feel-pain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":597,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}