{"id":370,"date":"2016-12-11T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/?p=370"},"modified":"2016-12-11T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2016-12-11T19:11:34","slug":"holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Keeping busy as the holiday season crawls along towards Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 Have holiday baking to do, presents to wrap (last minute thing around here since we still have a Santa believer), but for the\u00c2\u00a0most part, I am prepared for Christmas.<\/p>\n

We got a couple days of snow, meaning a couple snow days off school for the kids.\u00c2\u00a0 Snow is not the norm here, so people aren’t really prepared, no one knows how to drive in it (myself included, I can’t lie!), and pretty much the city shuts down.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if they manage to get the main streets clear and things moving, we are stuck, because we live at the top of a series of steep hills.\u00c2\u00a0 If you make it to the bottom of the first, and try to move out into the bigger world, you get to a junction with a hill going up left and a hill going up right.\u00c2\u00a0 Getting home is a big challenge, even if you make it out.<\/p>\n

Besides, we live in the boonies version of suburbia, pockets of homes surrounded by protected wilderness.\u00c2\u00a0 So the road deicers never make it this far.<\/p>\n

I still haven’t received my water barrel storage unit ordered on 10\/28.\u00c2\u00a0 Part of me worries that I am getting scammed.\u00c2\u00a0 But I did email at the end of November\u00c2\u00a0and got a quick response that they are waiting on material from their fabricators, which\u00c2\u00a0if the email was accurate they would have received\u00c2\u00a0the first week of December.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The website says “Turn around time is typically 3 weeks. \u00c2\u00a0 So the sooner you place your order\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the sooner it will be ready but there is a lead time for the fabricators to make everything.”\u00c2\u00a0 All I can do is hope\u00c2\u00a0I am not getting strung along so that it will be too late to register a complaint with my credit card company.\u00c2\u00a0 My gut tells me that they are just a small company<\/a> (or even just “a guy”) and since they have to outsource everything, I just need to be patient, and eventually they will come through.\u00c2\u00a0I was “order 204” not 14,204 or 183, 204.\u00c2\u00a0 So, I am practicing patience.\u00c2\u00a0 And hoping I am not an idiot.<\/p>\n

However, I haven’t wanted to fill up my water barrels, only to have to empty them\u00c2\u00a0to rack them, so I feel a little vulnerable.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, its winter and\u00c2\u00a0we get precipitation fairly constantly.\u00c2\u00a0 If\u00c2\u00a0the SHTF and I didn’t\u00c2\u00a0have to worry about legally collecting rainwater (only collecting roof runoff is legal here), then I could put out the kiddie pools and buckets and tarp collectors and have plenty of liquid to run through the berkey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keeping busy as the holiday season crawls along towards Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 Have holiday baking to do, presents to wrap (last minute thing around here since we still have a Santa believer), but for the\u00c2\u00a0most part, I am prepared for Christmas. We got a couple days of snow, meaning a couple snow days off school for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-water-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}