{"id":27,"date":"2007-07-07T05:39:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-07T12:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fromthefrontporch.com\/WPBlog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:21:10","slug":"from-the-home-front-porch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2007\/07\/from-the-home-front-porch\/","title":{"rendered":"From the home front porch!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on my &#8220;house&#8221; front porch this morning&#8230;watching the sun rise over the mountains and through\u00a0the woods!\u00a0 It is a refreshing 66 now at 6 a.m. but took all night to get here.\u00a0 The &#8220;problem&#8221; this time of year when it gets hot (90&#8217;s) is that sunset is 9:45 so it is not full dark until after 11 and sunrise is 5:40ish so short nighttime for cooling off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; home again after 24 days, 2452 miles, $1192 gas (avg 3.29 gal) and $416 campground fees (avg 28\/night) &#8211; PRICELESS!\u00a0 I saw some areas of the country that I have not seen before, met new people, visited family and generally had a wonderful time and a nice break from &#8220;normal&#8221; routine.\u00a0 Despite a couple of challenges &#8211; being sick, hydraulic glitch, heat a few days &#8211; a memorable trip full of fun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are a bunch of things I should be doing this morning while it is cool &#8211; clean up the motorhome inside and out and I mean REALLY clean &#8211; amazing how much dust, dirt, pet hair, etc. can accumulate&#8230; not to mention the bug stuff collected on the front end and general road dirt all over.\u00a0 The lawn and garden need mowing and weeding &#8211; strawberries ( I think the neighbors are getting those).\u00a0 I have given fair warning to a number of spiders that took up residence on the front porch &#8211;\u00a0to vacate or be displaced by my blower.\u00a0 Tomorrow is going to be soon enough for the RV and yard also &#8211; today is to enjoy being home with a quick run to grocery for a few supplies &#8211; and maybe &#8220;moving&#8221; the spiders&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More later &#8211; now it&#8217;s time for breakfast!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;on my &#8220;house&#8221; front porch this morning&#8230;watching the sun rise over the mountains and through\u00a0the woods!\u00a0 It is a refreshing 66 now at 6 a.m. but took all night to get here.\u00a0 The &#8220;problem&#8221; this time of year when it gets hot (90&#8217;s) is that sunset is 9:45 so it is not full dark until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rv-trips"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22548,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/22548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}