{"id":273,"date":"2008-01-04T21:05:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T04:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigglefern.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2013-12-30T21:44:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:44:11","slug":"its-raining-its-pouring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s raining, it&#8217;s pouring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230; the satellite dish is snoring &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/satellite.jpg' alt='satellite dish' class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sorry. That was pretty bad but I&#8217;m feeling a bit silly. Our spiffy, automated, installed-yesterday, satellite internet system is sleeping &#8230; stowed in the down position and not in use because the rain drowned the connection and the wind threatened its safety.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a little disappointing but basically we&#8217;re fortunate. It is the first storm in 15 years that didn&#8217;t cause worry about our road washing out or a tree falling on our house (I confess I still did worry a little, for the sake of friends still there.) Granted, we are parked at the edge of a lake and things are soggy. The manager recommended we move from our campsite to an adjacent day-use parking space where the water runs off the slighty higher and paved surface, down the boat ramp and into the rising lake. We&#8217;re dry and snug inside. The power is still on and if it doesn&#8217;t stay that  way &#8230; we have a generator (and a Verizon air card.)<\/p>\n<p>This is working out. We&#8217;re just minutes from Nicole. The bus service to Santa Cruz is good. And it&#8217;s nice looking out at a lake.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.ourhousehaswheels.com\/images\/pinto_lake_sunset.jpg' alt='pinto lake sunset' class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pinto Lake, December 31, 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; the satellite dish is snoring &#8230; Sorry. That was pretty bad but I&#8217;m feeling a bit silly. Our spiffy, automated, installed-yesterday, satellite internet system is sleeping &#8230; stowed in the down position and not in use because the rain drowned the connection and the wind threatened its safety. It&#8217;s a little disappointing but basically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}