{"id":232,"date":"2017-10-11T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirabug.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2017-09-08T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T01:50:35","slug":"day-41-damp-and-squeaky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/day-41-damp-and-squeaky\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 41: Damp and squeaky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 41:<\/p>\n<p>The top of my cave house is pretty well sealed against the wet. It&#8217;s taken me a while to accomplish that &#8211; stuffing pitch from the wood I&#8217;ve been burning into every crack I could find to seal the place up.<\/p>\n<p>Below the main level, though, when it rains, things still get pretty wet. \u00a0The water seeps through the ground and turns the dust to mud and the stone into a slippery surface that even the best of boots struggle to maintain a grip on.<\/p>\n<p>It rained all day today. I did my best to mine, but the risks are much higher than even The Company, with all their equipment, was generally willing to take on. We almost never dropped into a site if there was rain in the local forecast.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the Captain complaining one time about the delay in starting a drop because of the rain, and Marvin just looked her and said, &#8220;How many bones do you want the doc to set?&#8221; and that was the end of that.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow hopefully there will be less rain and more time to work my way closer to the mountain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" style=\"width: 2732px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-361 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?resize=525%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Watercolor sketch. All colors are muted as if seen through the rain. Blue-grey sky, some trees way in the background, yellowish-green fields in the distance, brighter green, then darker green fields in the foreground. \" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?w=2732&amp;ssl=1 2732w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kirabug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/One-Among-The-Dead-41.png?w=1575&amp;ssl=1 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view from my front door. Plenty of water for watercolors, but I&#8217;m running out of blue flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 41: The top of my cave house is pretty well sealed against the wet. It&#8217;s taken me a while to accomplish that &#8211; stuffing pitch from the wood I&#8217;ve been burning into every crack I could find to seal the place up. Below the main level, though, when it rains, things still get pretty &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/day-41-damp-and-squeaky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Day 41: Damp and squeaky&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-among-the-dead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdUhYo-3K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}