{"id":2923,"date":"2014-07-27T10:18:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T14:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2018-11-05T08:07:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T13:07:20","slug":"screen-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/screen-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen houses"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Our<\/a>

Our screen “house”<\/p><\/div>\n

It may just be that we have a screen house this summer, but I have been noticing how many RVers have them. I suppose in places with few insects (yes, there are some – the desert, for example) they really aren’t needed. But we are in New England where there are, after a good, soaking rain, enough mosquitoes to carry you away. Avoiding the annoyance buzzing bugs alone justifies the cost. But when someone is allergic (yes, that would be Jett), the cost should be deductible as a medical necessity.<\/p>\n

Ours is, technically speaking, not so much a screen house as a screen umbrella. It is a net that drapes over a large patio umbrella. Lacking stakes – or any support other than the center pole – I was concerned that the whole thing would blow away in the first stiff breeze. That concern, coupled with the realization that the net didn’t quite reach the ground, led to a solution: bury the base about 4″ in the soil. That gave the whole shebang additional stability and closed those annoying gaps around the base. No breeze has, to date, blown it away.<\/p>\n

\"Rusty<\/a>

Rusty enjoying his net cage<\/p><\/div>\n

\"One<\/a>

One of Steve and Elaine’s screen houses<\/p><\/div>\n

Steve and Elaine, our friendly neighbors, liked their screen house so much last summer that this year they have two<\/em>.\u00a0 They seem to use one for socializing and one for playing cards.\u00a0 But it Jett and I had two they would probably become his-and-her spaces.\u00a0 I need a man-cave.<\/p>\n

A walk around the park revealed a wide variety of screen houses. Here is one of the more interesting ones – a tent-style one that is actually larger than the tent in which the occupants sleep.

\"Tent-style<\/a>

Tent-style screen house<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It may just be that we have a screen house this summer, but I have been noticing how many RVers have them. I suppose in places with few insects (yes, there are some – the desert, for example) they really aren’t needed. But we are in New England where there are, after a good, soaking … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places-ma","category-places","category-rv-living"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-L9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7028,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}