{"id":12107,"date":"2025-08-31T04:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T08:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12107"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:25:19","slug":"sun-aug-31-2025-finally-headed-to-the-bol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/08\/31\/sun-aug-31-2025-finally-headed-to-the-bol\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun. Aug. 31, 2025 &#8211; finally headed to the BOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and wet.  Or slightly cooler and wet.  We got rained on late in the day yesterday, but it came down in buckets.  Rained at the BOL too.  I think today will be clear, but the humidity will probably be high.  It was 78F when I went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I spent Saturday moving out of one 5 x 10 storage unit.  And shuttling the kid around.  I had a surprising amount of stuff in the unit, despite it having been burgled twice.  I&#8217;ve got my next couple of weeks to go through it and sort it.  Some I can sell on ebay.  Some will go to my local auction, and I think some will just go in the dumpster.  Lots of books to add to my library too.<\/p>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re headed to the BOL to join my wife.  I&#8217;m hoping for nice weather.  I need it to be dry enough to mow&#8230; and W wants to run the boat.  I&#8217;m taking a load of stuff, but not as much as most times.  Two weekends in a row, and a serious reduction in auction purchases means there is only a little pile to go up this time.<\/p>\n<p>Improving the BOL is a long term prep, and it takes a lot of time, money, and energy.  But it&#8217;s worth doing.  Even if it means stacking twice as much&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and wet.  Or slightly cooler and wet.  We got rained on late in the day yesterday, but it came down in buckets.  Rained at the BOL too.  I think today will be clear, but the humidity will probably be high.  It was 78F when I went to bed.<\/p>\n<p>I spent Saturday moving out of one 5 x 10 storage unit.  And shuttling the kid around.  I had a surprising amount of stuff in the unit,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2025\/08\/31\/sun-aug-31-2025-finally-headed-to-the-bol\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sun. Aug. 31, 2025 &#8211; finally headed to the BOL &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12108,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions\/12108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}