{"id":21404,"date":"2008-12-24T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=529"},"modified":"2016-09-11T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-11T10:08:17","slug":"if-not-the-weather-the-cats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/if-not-the-weather-the-cats\/","title":{"rendered":"If Not the Weather, the&#8230; Cats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had water at 6:30 this morning, but not at 8:30. I got the heat gun, set it up, opened the tap in the bathroom sink, and went out to open the guest facilities. I wound up getting tied up there and didn&#8217;t get back home for twenty minutes.<\/p>\n<p>That was just long enough for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the heat gun to work its magic;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>water to start gushing out of the bathroom tap;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>one of the cats (probably Neelix) to leap up onto the counter to get at all that fresh, yummy water, and;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>knock a washcloth into the basin where it stopped the drain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*sighs*<\/p>\n<p>I suppose that&#8217;s one way to wash the floors. I used a heater to dry out everything and the room looks okay. I hope that the water didn&#8217;t have time to infiltrate.<\/p>\n<p>In other dismal news, I believe that my loft is now leaking. I&#8217;ve got a nice chunk of ice in one corner. Inside. I&#8217;m going to get the heater up there next, but I&#8217;m sure the damage is done. Caulking will have to wait until the weather warms up.<\/p>\n<p>In happier news, it was SUNNY today!!! I went out to do the cleaning this afternoon and switched to a light sweater and a kerchief, instead of the sweater, coat, and tuque I&#8217;ve been living in. Sure, it was a tad &#8216;brisk&#8217; (-11) walking around the park like that, but it felt sooooo nice to be unencumbered by a million layers of clothing. Of course, the sun is already setting (can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s four, where does the day go?!), but I definitely got my vitamin D quota for the day.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I managed to run my errands in preparation for Thursday&#8217;s dinner with the guests. My contribution is mashed turnip (rutabaga for you purists) with brown sugar, which I will have the pleasure of serving in a bowl that belonged to my dad. I couldn&#8217;t tell you the number of times I served mashed root vegetables in that bowl over the past twenty years and I am very happy to bring a piece of my father with me to this traditional Christmas meal he would have enjoyed so much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had water at 6:30 this morning, but not at 8:30. I got the heat gun, set it up, opened the tap in the bathroom sink, and went out to open the guest facilities. I wound up getting tied up there and didn&#8217;t get back home for twenty minutes. That was just long enough for: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,1276,11,5,3,8],"tags":[1447],"class_list":["post-21404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-oliver-bc","category-personal","category-rving","category-travel","category-work","tag-cats-in-an-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}