{"id":2142,"date":"2010-08-10T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2010-08-10T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T04:10:17","slug":"things-im-looking-forward-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/things-im-looking-forward-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;m looking forward to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;m looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2010\/07\/26\/house-sweet-house\/\" target=\"_blank\">in a house in a small town<\/a> in the Northwest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rooms. This will be the first time in 10 years I&#8217;ll be able to walk through a doorway and not end up outside (or in a bathroom).\n<li>Room. Being able to move through my living space without bumping into things, knocking objects over, or having to leapfrog assorted dogs.\n<li>Tap water that doesn&#8217;t destroy everything it touches.\n<li>Filling a glass of water right from the spigot and being able to drink it (instead of hauling 55-gallon barrels of drinkable water from town and 5-gallon jugs from the power shed).\n<li>Green.\n<li>A notable dearth of <a href=\"http:\/\/theultimateanswertokings.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/had-bit-of-excitement-today.html\" target=\"_blank\">rattlesnakes<\/a>.\n<li>Power that comes at the flip of a switch without any personal prayer or engineering involved. (Yes, I know; it&#8217;s major coolness living off-grid, and we preparedness types are supposed to be able to generate our own power by rubbing two sticks together or something and it&#8217;s fashionable for us to scorn &#8220;the grid.&#8221; But solar power is really <i>not<\/i> ready for prime time.)\n<li>Not being 12 miles from town. (Yes, it&#8217;s also been cool telling &#8220;civilized&#8221; people that I have to drive through five desert washes just to get to the grocery store, and when it rains I can&#8217;t leave the property because the flash floods might carry my SUV away. But enough&#8217;s enough. Those floods have been impressive, though.)\n<li>Having a real library within a mile of me again. Whoohoo!!!\n<li>Green.\n<li>Trees taller than my kneecaps.\n<li>Being near the ocean even if I don&#8217;t go there all that often, and even if it&#8217;s always 50 degrees and foggy when I do.\n<li>Having a generator be a backup device and not a regular part of living.\n<li>Fecundity. Wild mushrooms in the fall. Fiddlehead ferns. Streams teaming with fish. Blackberries, huckleberries, and salmonberries growing everywhere. <i>All kinds of stuff<\/i> growing everywhere.\n<li>A toilet. That flushes.\n<li>A bathtub. With<i>actual hot water<\/i>.\n<li>Being able to run a hair dryer, a microwave, or a fan without a) paroxysms of guilt or b) hitting the low-battery cut-off point.\n<li>Green.\n<li>Green.\n<li>Green.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Final packing day tomorrow. Trailer loading on Thursday. Hit the road on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m taking backroads most of the way and making a leisurely trip of it. I expect I&#8217;ll be able to blog a bit at truck stops or motels-with-wifi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I&#8217;m looking forward to in a house in a small town in the Northwest. Rooms. This will be the first time in 10 years I&#8217;ll be able to walk through a doorway and not end up outside (or in a bathroom). Room. Being able to move through my living space without bumping into things, knocking objects over, or having to leapfrog assorted dogs. Tap water that doesn&#8217;t destroy everything it touches. Filling a glass of water right from the spigot and being able to drink it (instead of hauling 55-gallon barrels of drinkable water from town and 5-gallon jugs&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/things-im-looking-forward-to\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Things I&#8217;m looking forward to<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rural-and-small-town-living","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}