{"id":15343,"date":"2014-11-25T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T23:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2014-11-25T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T00:30:33","slug":"a-dark-and-stormy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/11\/a-dark-and-stormy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A dark and stormy day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day where I woke just before 5:00 a.m., looked at the weather…saw there was a high wind advisory for 11:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Ok.<\/p>\n

It is 191 interstate miles to Dillon, i.e. 4 hours so I thought I would try to leave at 7:30 and ETA being 11:30 in Dillon, all should be well. <\/p>\n

I use an online tool: www.thenextexit.com which shows information for interstate exits. I normally make a list of potential fuel stops, rest areas and optional rv park destinations so I can quickly see options as I go.<\/p>\n

This morning, I made my normal list and also a side list of Emergency stops in case the weather deteriorated faster than forecast.<\/p>\n

As I was doing that, the wind came up.<\/p>\n

Bear and I went for a walk. It was VERY windy and it was not yet sunrise.<\/p>\n

RATS.<\/p>\n

I looked at Dillon weather which had an advisory for not only wind, but snow…blowing snow and low visibility.<\/p>\n

Decision made…staying in Pocatello.<\/p>\n

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Dark.<\/p>\n

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Stormy.<\/p>\n

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Windy!… REALLY windy. It calmed mid-morning and then ramped up about 11:00 and continued.<\/p>\n

Bear and I went out in the Jeep. I thought I’d hunt up a bit of Turkey. I had a wonderful Turkey dinner almost 2 weeks ago with my folks, Grandma Betty and my brother, but still…Thanksgiving!! – gotta have a little more turkey.<\/p>\n

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A little more turkey…a 3 pound breast. It is SO cute! The pineapple is there for proportion. The little breast is in a foil loaf pan.<\/p>\n

I texted RV friend Sharon (Sharon and her husband, John, stayed at Summers RV park late summer and Sharon loves the convection oven whereas I love the gas oven, but in the interest of time…) inquiring about how to use the convection oven for the turkey. She texted right back with a recipe and instruction. <\/p>\n

My “plan” – you know how that goes – is to do this turkey tomorrow afternoon …hopefully in Dillon, MT as the weather is to calm tomorrow – Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile.<\/p>\n

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Auggie.<\/p>\n

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Bear.<\/p>\n

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More Bear.<\/p>\n

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My venue for the day.<\/p>\n

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Another Auggie spot – the kitchen window.<\/p>\n

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A dark and stormy day.<\/p>\n

***GOOD GRIEF!!! – Bear and I went for our “before supper” walk and were nearly blown away. The wind advisory was extended until midnight. Thankfully, our site is protected and\/or at an angle where we feel the occasional gust but the slide toppers are not flapping and we are relatively quiet in the midst of what seems like a gale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day where I woke just before 5:00 a.m., looked at the weather…saw there was a high wind advisory for 11:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. Ok. It is 191 interstate miles to Dillon, i.e. 4 hours so I thought I would try to leave at 7:30 and ETA being 11:30 in Dillon, all should be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15349,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions\/15349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}