{"id":478,"date":"2012-05-13T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-09-09T14:02:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T18:02:22","slug":"still-no-overnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/still-no-overnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no overnight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I made my third trip to the fiver in NH.\u00a0 Jett made her second.\u00a0 The dogs made their first.\u00a0 Yes, we introduced the pups to the fiver.\u00a0 Grace took to it like she owned it and even decided that the floor of the closet was a good place to curl up while we cleaned the place.\u00a0 Cha-Cha was more hesitant and seems to have not yet decided whether he likes it.\u00a0 But the good news is that both made it up and down the metal stairs without assistance, which will reduce the pressure on me to build a staircase or ramp.\u00a0 Even Jett seems to be relatively comfortable with getting in an out. She likes the big handle at the edge of the door that she can hang onto as she navigates the steps.<\/p>\n<p>She is less enamored with the screen door.\u00a0 It has a little sliding plexiglass door at the handle that has to be slid back to open from the inside, but is difficult to close again once outside.\u00a0 I suspect that we will learn to close it before exiting.<\/p>\n<p>What did we accomplish yesterday?\u00a0 Besides cleaning the place and introducing the dogs to our new home, we also:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up (and tore down) the screen room.\u00a0 It is larger than I expected &#8211; 10 x 10 &#8211; and in good shape.\u00a0 It is somewhat tricky to assemble, but, like most things, I will get better at it with practice.<\/li>\n<li>Set up the cable box. We now have DirecTV in all three rooms.\u00a0 I discovered (and this really shouldn&#8217;t have been a surprise), but we can tune just one channel at a time.\u00a0 So we can watch the same program in any room.\u00a0 And to change the channel in the living room I need to go into the bedroom.\u00a0 Not ideal, but tolerable.\u00a0 We expect that the kids will mostly watch DVDs and we expect to have DVD capability in all 3 rooms.<\/li>\n<li>Weighed the contents of the basement.\u00a0 We are trying to keep a running tally of all the cargo that will be carried and the first step was to compute the weight of the &#8220;extras&#8221; that came with the unit &#8211; screen house, levelers, etc.\u00a0 Not much cargo yet &#8211; maybe 100lbs total so far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things we haven&#8217;t done yet: sleep in the bed, cook any meals, try the freezer, take a shower, empty the holding tanks for the second bath.\u00a0 And we haven&#8217;t heard back yet from Ron about the platform.\u00a0 Those will all be things on the agenda for next weekend.<\/p>\n<p>We haven&#8217;t had much fun yet, either.\u00a0 But we will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I made my third trip to the fiver in NH.\u00a0 Jett made her second.\u00a0 The dogs made their first.\u00a0 Yes, we introduced the pups to the fiver.\u00a0 Grace took to it like she owned it and even decided that the floor of the closet was a good place to curl up while we cleaned &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/still-no-overnight\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preparation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-7I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}