{"id":301,"date":"2015-05-24T00:22:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/?p=301"},"modified":"2015-09-30T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T01:41:17","slug":"happy-memorial-day-and-photos-of-blasting-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/2015\/05\/24\/happy-memorial-day-and-photos-of-blasting-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Memorial day and photos of blasting prep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful day here in Carlisle today &#8211; cool (60&#8217;s) and windy. \u00a0Did some mowing, some roof rack prep on the cars, bought a dump sticker for my car, got gas for the tractor and dropped by Bedford Road to see the prep work for blasting<\/p>\n<p>They were drilling holes last week and ended up with 140 of them. \u00a0Paul told me that they wanted the pieces to be small enough that they would be easy to take out. \u00a0He was unsure what the material would be like but he is planning on using it in the driveway and for the stone patio at the front door &#8211; unless it is all dust.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_300\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0702.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0702-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Some of the blast holes with their black paper funnels. On the left is the stack of used car tire mat that is used to contain the blasting. Holes are all drilled and supposedly they are blasting Tuesday after Memorial Day\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0702-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0702-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the blast holes with their black paper funnels. On the left is the stack of used car tire mat that is used to contain the blasting. Holes are all drilled and supposedly they are blasting Tuesday after Memorial Day<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_299\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-299\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0701-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"140 holes for the explosives, drilled into the Gneiss rock. The black 'spikes' are tarpaper funnels inserted into the holes. The color contrast doesn't do justice to the pure white rock dust\/gravel from the holes. It reminds me of sea salt\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0701-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0701-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">140 holes for the explosives, drilled into the Gneiss rock. The black &#8216;spikes&#8217; are tarpaper funnels inserted into the holes. The color contrast doesn&#8217;t do justice to the pure white rock dust\/gravel from the holes. It reminds me of sea salt<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_298\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0700.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0700-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The machine that has been drilling holes for the explosives\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0700-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_0700-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The machine that has been drilling holes for the explosives<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful day here in Carlisle today &#8211; cool (60&#8217;s) and windy. Did some mowing, some roof rack prep on the cars, bought a dump sticker for my car, got gas for the tractor and dropped by Bedford Road to see the prep work for blasting<\/p>\n<p>They were drilling holes last week and ended up with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sixthelement.org\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}