{"id":13005,"date":"2026-08-18T03:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=13005"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:46:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:46:04","slug":"tues-aug-18-2026-homeward-bound-i-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/08\/18\/tues-aug-18-2026-homeward-bound-i-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Aug. 18, 2026 &#8211; homeward bound, I hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and humid.  Still dry too.  Crunchy grass.  It got well above 100F yesterday and was still 84F at midnight.  There was a breeze which helped.  I mostly worked indoors, but going out to cut stuff was like an oven.  Probably the same today too.<\/p>\n<p>Did my interior trimout for the window.  I have two &#8220;soldier course&#8221; bricks to mortar back into place and the project will be finished.   I might try to do that today, depending on my back mostly.  Had some drama with the A\/C in yesterday&#8217;s comments, so I didn&#8217;t get home last night.  <\/p>\n<p>My plan for today is to sleep, get up, maybe do the brick work, and then head home.  I&#8217;ve got a ton of stuff to do to get ready for my event, and I feel a little behind.   A lot of it is &#8220;winging it&#8221; and just doing what I did last year, but I do have some new stuff to sell too.  That should at least get a quick checkout.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see what actually happens.   It&#8217;s always something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So stack and prep, then the big things turn out to be smaller things, and the drama goes away.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot and humid.  Still dry too.  Crunchy grass.  It got well above 100F yesterday and was still 84F at midnight.  There was a breeze which helped.  I mostly worked indoors, but going out to cut stuff was like an oven.  Probably the same today too.<\/p>\n<p>Did my interior trimout for the window.  I have two &#8220;soldier course&#8221; bricks to mortar back into place and the project will be finished.   I might try to do that today,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/08\/18\/tues-aug-18-2026-homeward-bound-i-hope\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Aug. 18, 2026 &#8211; homeward bound, I hope &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":[15,83,96,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-lakehouse","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","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=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}