{"id":196,"date":"2010-07-28T17:10:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-07-28T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T16:14:55","slug":"my-new-studio-week-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/2010\/07\/my-new-studio-week-5\/","title":{"rendered":"My new Studio – week 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final clearing phase was completed this weekend – from part shed to no shed. <\/p>\n

I saw the mother pigeon feeding her two young on top of the outhouse this evening, so both are fit and healthy. I’ve seen the mother a few times since the youngsters disappeared but I’m very pleased to have their safety confirmed – especially as I found the remains of a pigeon in the field this afternoon while I was harrowing it.<\/p>\n

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\nToday I finally began to remove the roof timbers and evicted the swallows – tyrant that I am! \ud83d\ude42 There are plenty of nearby trees and access to the inside of the barn for roosts, and roosting was all they were recently using their old nest site for. With the roof and end panels removed, that just left the rotten uprights to haul out.<\/p>\n

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I discovered how powerful the new tractor’s hydraulics are as I lifted out the only upright that wasn’t rotten at the base – with a push to loosen it, it came out the ground complete with its concrete block. And that was it – the last post out and the job completed!<\/p>\n

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So the site is now cleared, fenced off so old Dolly the 34-year-old Shetland Pony can safely graze, and the site is ready for the builder to begin laying footings and the low wall that will contain the concrete base. The wall is designed to lift the studio above the occasional light flooding, and to dissuade Ronnie Rat and his mates from chewing their way in. All I need now is the builder….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I finally began to remove the roof timbers and evicted the swallows – tyrant that I am! There are plenty of nearby trees and access to the inside of the barn for roosts, and roosting was all they were recently using their old nest site for. With the roof and end panels removed from the old hay store, that just left the rotten uprights to haul out to complete the job…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[66,160,65],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-studio","tag-dvd","tag-new-studio","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibleyfineart.com\/_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}