{"id":2933,"date":"2016-08-04T09:56:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2933"},"modified":"2016-08-04T09:56:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T13:56:42","slug":"thursday-4-august-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/08\/04\/thursday-4-august-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 4 August 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">09:56 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> August is starting out faster than usual. We shipped seven kits Tuesday, three yesterday, and four today. We also have several more kits that we&#8217;re awaiting checks or POs on. We&#8217;re averaging four+ kits per day, which is fast for early August. Things should pick up even more in the next week or ten days. So we&#8217;re building more kits in anticipation, which means I need to get more components on order today and tomorrow.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Our climate isn&#8217;t quite a temperate rain forest, which requires 60 inches of rain annually, but at an average of 56 inches, we&#8217;re not far off. It&#8217;s raining as I write. In the last week, we&#8217;ve had about 5.5 inches (14 cm) of rain, with more in prospect. I think of July and August as dry months, which they&#8217;ve been everywhere I&#8217;ve lived, but not up here in Sparta. That&#8217;s good in several ways, not least that it makes rainwater harvesting a practical alternative for emergency water.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">The other different thing about the climate up here is the earliest frost date. I think of September as a warm month, the end of summer, and October as a time of warm days and chilly nights. Up here, our earliest freeze date is in early September, only a month from now. We could go from temperatures near body temperature to freezing temperatures with snow and ice in only a month.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09:56 &#8211; August is starting out faster than usual. We shipped seven kits Tuesday, three yesterday, and four today. We also have several more kits that we&#8217;re awaiting checks or POs on. We&#8217;re averaging four+ kits per day, which is fast for early August. Things should pick up even more in the next week or ten days. So we&#8217;re building more kits in anticipation, which means I need to get more components on order today and tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/08\/04\/thursday-4-august-2016\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 4 August 2016 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science-kits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}