{"id":5374,"date":"2013-11-20T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2013-11-20T17:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T01:07:39","slug":"the-pond-is-frozen-but-not-our-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/the-pond-is-frozen-but-not-our-pipes\/","title":{"rendered":"The pond is frozen, but not our pipes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have thrown the two levers that shut off water to the yard, opened the outdoor taps wide, plus unscrewed the less-than-dime-sized little screw plugs that let air into the pipes for the winter, to drain any low spot and dry them out.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we absolutely appreciate about this house&#8230;no 300.00 bill from the entrepreneurs who will &#8216;blow out&#8217; your irrigation system and winterize your pipes. Our house takes two people 15 minutes. We clip a baggie with the two essential screw plugs in it to the pipes in question, and we&#8217;re good until spring, at which point we will screw in the plugs, throw the levers to open position, and la! we&#8217;re open for business with the garden hoses.<\/p>\n<p>Jane&#8217;s off mailing a legal document and has stopped by Christmasland at the local Wallyworld where we get our fizz-bottles for the SodaStream. Wally world isn&#8217;t our favorite for reasons of how they treat their employees, but it&#8217;s the closest place for miles and miles where we can get those fizz-bottles, and they also house my optometrist, so we do go there now and again. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m finally feeling better. I nearly threw myself into a relapse yesterday, out there in the iris beds, but today Jane insisted I stay in and get well. It&#8217;s been offically 2 weeks now since I began to come down with this stuff. So it&#8217;s about darned time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have thrown the two levers that shut off water to the yard, opened the outdoor taps wide, plus unscrewed the less-than-dime-sized little screw plugs that let air into the pipes for the winter, to drain any low spot and dry them out. One thing we absolutely appreciate about this house&#8230;no 300.00 bill from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}