{"id":22120,"date":"2013-02-12T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T18:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18374"},"modified":"2016-09-19T17:48:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T14:48:43","slug":"a-bump-on-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/a-bump-on-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bump On the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think we all have projects on our lists that we tend to forget about until it would have been great to have them done, but it&#8217;s now not the right time to do them.<\/p>\n<p>One such project for me was to get the hand cream and soap off of the vanity counter. It&#8217;s been four and a half years and at every departure I put the damn bottles in the sink and bemoan my not having taken the time to come up with a better storage system for them. Four and a half years! I know, I&#8217;m a moron!<\/p>\n<p>I opened an overhead cabinet in the study this morning that I apparently haven&#8217;t opened in a while because the contents had shifted. I was promptly hit over the head with a wire door organizer. Gah, why do I even still have that thing?! It&#8217;s always falling on my head! I had bought a three-pack, but ended up only <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=11217\">using two in the kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Waitaminute&#8230; I really am a moron. How many times have I moved that organizer and kicked myself for not just donating it already? Not nearly as many times as I have kicked myself for not securing the stuff on the vanity, but a lot. And the solution was to merge the two annoyances, like so:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMGP5820.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18375\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/IMGP5820-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP5820\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As for the bowl and cup on the counter, I&#8217;m just about out of water on the on board tank, so I keep the bowl filled from a large jug I replenish in the beach&#8217;s public bathroom and then use the cup as a dipper.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I could probably pull out and find water somewhere, but why bother? The only reason to have running water in my opinion is to have hot running water. I have a 10-gallon water heater and am not taking showers, so heating that much water would be stupid. Ergo the bowl. For doing the dishes, I have a large pot that I can fill with water and heat on the stove.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no hardship and it actually makes it easier for me to be conservative with my water use as I know exactly how much I&#8217;m using in a day, which is about a gallon (4L). I could surely reduce that more, but I like to have really clean dishes, so no just washing them in a cup of water when I can haul all the water I want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we all have projects on our lists that we tend to forget about until it would have been great to have them done, but it&#8217;s now not the right time to do them. One such project for me was to get the hand cream and soap off of the vanity counter. It&#8217;s been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1242,635,5,1039,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homemaking","category-magnolia-beach","category-north-america","category-rving","category-texas","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120","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=22120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}