{"id":2273,"date":"2007-07-20T22:10:28","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T03:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.5\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2273"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T21:31:59","slug":"rain-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-house-project\/rain-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rain&#8217;s continued off and on all week and the work as been just as intermittent. Yesterday was a pretty good day and the framing was completed and part of the metal roof panels installed. In contrast, today it began raining at 6:15 am and then at 10:15 it began raining <strong>hard<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>When the building part of this project is done, I&#8217;ll be able to put in the french drains, a retaining wall, a rainwater collection system, and finally some plants. These are all things I wish were done before all this rain but it just didn&#8217;t work out that way. I feel miserable seeing all the rain wasted.<\/p>\n<p>I know that this excess rain been bad for some people but I love it. I always wanted to live somewhere where the summer temperatures top out in the 80s instead of the 100s. Tonight we had to turn off the whole-house fan because the inside temperature had dropped to 75 and I was getting goose bumps.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of the rain? Not when I look at photos from last year&#8217;s drought.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/20060826.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens Texas Flood\" \/><br \/><i>2006-08-26. Drought or flood&#8211;that&#8217;s Texas. I&#8217;ll take the flood.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/20070720a.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens Texas Flood\" \/><br \/><i>2007-07-20. I knew putting the house in a trench and then piling a foot of caliche behind it was going to cause drainage problems. This area behind the house will someday be my garden work area and tool storage.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2273\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}