{"id":3288,"date":"2015-03-01T19:50:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2015-03-01T19:50:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:50:52","slug":"jos-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/jos-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo’s Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our youngest dog, Jo, had a birthday this past week; she is now 4 years old. Here she is with her birthday present, Mr. Snake.<\/p>\n

\"Jo<\/a>

Jo on her 4th birthday<\/p><\/div>\n

That snake is kind of disturbing to me\u00a0in some ways, but Jo seems to really like it. I have added a new photo\u00a0gallery named Dogs<\/a> to my Galleries<\/a> page. It features photos of Blondie, Bru, and Jo from puppyhood to now.<\/p>\n

Weather has been really strange. The snow we were expecting last week never materialized, although higher elevations received plenty. More snow is in the forecast but we won’t get much, perhaps\u00a0an inch all told, but right now it is pretty nice for the 1st of March.<\/p>\n

In fact, I started a fire in the fire pit this morning and enjoyed a cup of tea in front of it.<\/p>\n

\"Tea<\/a>

Tea by fire pit\u2026nice way to start the day<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Fire<\/a>

Fire is just about the right size for a chilly morning<\/p><\/div>\n

In other miscellaneous notes, we finished moving stuff from the old wicker sideboard into the new sideboard\/dresser I mentioned in my last post. (Took a few minutes to throw out some dated items – who knew that junk was\u00a0even in there…) \u00a0The wicker unit is now awaiting disposal; every spring the town brings in a large dumpster for clean-up days and the old sideboard will be put in it.<\/p>\n

I wired up my old Bose 301 speakers in the garage, and they sound good. The mounts I fabricated are pretty dismal but they work OK.<\/p>\n

\"Garage<\/a>

Garage speaker mounts are suspended from ceiling<\/p><\/div>\n

Getting the wires run from the amplifier to the speakers was the worst part of the job as I had to crawl along the rafters way out to the walls to get the wires in the right place.\u00a0It was great having music going while I did my weekly auto check (oil levels, washer fluid, coolant, tire pressure) on both the Honda and the F-150, well worth the effort.<\/p>\n

The well permit came from the state, so once the snow clears we can get started on getting a well drilled. This should happen late April or early May if the weather cooperates. \u00a0Every property development direction is dependent on the depth and production of the well.<\/p>\n

I bought new batteries for the RV. Cabellas had them on sale at 25% off, saving $50.00 per battery. (The RV takes two.) These are high-end batteries of the AGM type. Sealed, no maintenance needed, vibration resistant and designed for continuous duty rather than just starting power. I hope they do a good job as I was getting tired of getting up in the middle of cold nights to start the generator needed to keep the old batteries charged and thus keep the furnace running. I’ll see how these new batteries work when we take the RV back to the lot later this spring.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:<\/p>\n

By age, the dogs aren’t pups any more. \u00a0But, Jo has the Spaniel mentality of a young pup. \u00a0She probably always will.<\/p>\n

Happy Trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our youngest dog, Jo, had a birthday this past week; she is now 4 years old. Here she is with her birthday present, Mr. Snake. That snake is kind of disturbing to me\u00a0in some ways, but Jo seems to really like it. I have added a new photo\u00a0gallery named Dogs to my Galleries page. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3304,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appleattic.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}