{"id":1358,"date":"2021-07-15T04:04:10","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T02:49:22","slug":"ponce-chronicles-2021-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/2021\/07\/15\/ponce-chronicles-2021-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Ponce Chronicles 2021, Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve made progress on the home repair project, here in Puerto Rico. I\u2019ve constructed a small Quonset hut over the pump for the main cistern, a task left over from the last trip. Not elegant, perhaps, but for the last couple of years the pump and electric motor have been exposed to the elements, which can\u2019t have been good. Now they\u2019re snug and protected, more or less.<\/p>\r\n<p>Before:<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Cistern-pump-uncovered_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>After:<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Cistern-pump-cover_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>That, you\u2019ll note, wasn\u2019t on the to-do list I gave last time. There are many such things, and every one of them is going to take ten times longer than I estimate when I start it. Death, taxes, and ten times longer. You can count on it.<\/p>\r\n<p>Remember the air conditioner I was working on? I got the frame installed around it. That took ten times longer, too. It doesn\u2019t look good yet, so no picture.<\/p>\r\n<p>Remember the pool deck I showed last time, in late-night mood lighting? Here it is, in daylight, close up. You begin to see the problem. They all have to be fastened from beneath. I estimate it will take&#8230; well, never mind.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Pool-deck-bad-boards_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Foliage in Puerto Rico is glorious. Here, to brighten the mood, are some trinitaria and flamboy\u00e1n behind the house.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17193\" src=\"https:\/\/www.starrigger.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Trinitaria-and-Flamboyan_sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve made progress on the home repair project, here in Puerto Rico. I\u2019ve constructed a small Quonset hut over the pump for the main cistern, a task left over from the last trip. Not elegant, perhaps, but for the last couple of years the pump and electric motor have been exposed to the elements, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-life-experiences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treehousewriters.com\/wp53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}