{"id":21895,"date":"2010-09-25T19:50:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T02:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=9441"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:41:45","slug":"anatidae-and-serpentes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/anatidae-and-serpentes\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatidae and Serpentes"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first day in Osoyoos was a good one. The weather was HOT! I can’t believe that just a few days ago I was scrambling to find cold weather gear!<\/p>\n

One of my contracts picked up speed this week, so I was able to put in a full day of work (if only it would keep up steady like this for the next four months!). Having the attention span of a gnat, I like to break my work day into roughly one hour chunks, then take a break away from the computer. I work a much longer day that way, but I find I am more productive.<\/p>\n

For one of the breaks I took today, I headed to the beach, just a couple of minutes from my spot. There are a bunch of ducks who like to lie around on the sand and I had fun watching them for a spell.<\/p>\n

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Okanagan Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

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Okanagan Lake<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mallards chilling out<\/p><\/div>\n

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beautiful mallards<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mallard making sure his boy parts are still there?<\/p><\/div>\n

For my lunch break, I decided to walk into town to see if there was anything practical within reasonable walking distance (nope). I made sure to capture this sign placed just before the entrance to the RV park:<\/p>\n

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\u00a0snakes crossing sign<\/p><\/div>\n

Longtime readers will not be surprised that my reaction to this sign<\/a> was Ooh! rather than Ew!<\/p>\n

I have to say that this geographic area astounds me. There is no doubt I am in a desert, and many people practice xeriscaping, but there is still this lush abundance that fits in with what I think the Mediterranean coast would look like. On my walk, I saw cacti in one garden and grapes in the next!<\/p>\n

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lush desert<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometime in the middle of all this, I met some more blog readers (thank you for stopping in!) and soon as I hit publish, I’m off to the pool. This Okanagan stay is off to a good start and I hope it stays that way!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My first day in Osoyoos was a good one. The weather was HOT! I can’t believe that just a few days ago I was scrambling to find cold weather gear! One of my contracts picked up speed this week, so I was able to put in a full day of work (if only it would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442,632,635,1283,5,3,8],"tags":[853,654,802],"class_list":["post-21895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britishcolumbia","category-canada","category-north-america","category-osoyoos-bc","category-rving","category-travel","category-work","tag-accommodation","tag-hiking","tag-parksgardens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}