{"id":225,"date":"2018-04-17T20:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T20:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2018-06-04T21:39:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T21:39:42","slug":"17-april-too-much-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"17 April&#8211;too much distraction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-226 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417greenwork-300x127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417greenwork-300x127.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417greenwork-768x324.jpg 768w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417greenwork.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 85vw, 357px\" \/>Let&#8217;s start off focusing on the bulk of the work of the past several days.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <em>very<\/em> slow right now; a combination of working in the small curving space above her body and the lack of tiles to choose from.\u00a0 Those two things mean it takes a lot of time to find an appropriate tile, a lot of clipping and grinding to make them fit, and a LOT of trips up and down the stepstool.\u00a0 Still, you can see I&#8217;m very close to having the entire area above her body filled in!\u00a0 And there is more done out front of her as well (see photo below).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-227 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416newgreentiles-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416newgreentiles-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416newgreentiles.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 85vw, 240px\" \/>I broke down and bought some tiles at the Mexican-style tile store in Merida.\u00a0 There are several colors here, and I bought one pattern that you can see in the photo.\u00a0 Notice that none of these are soft pastels; Mexican tile is known for its bright colors!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-228 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416greenwork-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416greenwork-300x184.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180416greenwork.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>So now the question: is there so much color up there that Sirena is getting lost?\u00a0 Lots of colors; lots of small tiles in a multitude of shapes.\u00a0 Hopefully when it&#8217;s all cleaned up and grouted it will all be fine.<\/p>\n<p>Here she is as of the end of April 17.\u00a0 I have at the most one more day of work before our long trip!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-229\" src=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417wide-300x72.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417wide-300x72.jpg 300w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417wide-768x184.jpg 768w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417wide-1024x246.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/180417wide.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 596px) 85vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Next page:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/?p=239\"><strong><em>4 June&#8211;We&#8217;re back!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start off focusing on the bulk of the work of the past several days. It&#8217;s very slow right now; a combination of working in the small curving space above her body and the lack of tiles to choose from.\u00a0 Those two things mean it takes a lot of time to find an appropriate tile, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/?p=225\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;17 April&#8211;too much distraction?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-sirena"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casasierradelsol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}