{"id":3828,"date":"2011-12-07T18:11:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T01:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/3828\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T18:36:59","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T01:36:59","slug":"3828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/07\/3828\/","title":{"rendered":"Draining the Spa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ice-hose.jpg' title='ice-hose.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ice-hose.jpg' alt='ice-hose.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>Verna and I decided to drain the spa for the winter season. Even though we are likely to get 70&deg; + days during the winter months, we figured that keeping the spa heated up would be a losing proposition.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image &#8211; ice chunks coming out of the hose &#8211; click to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hooked up the hose to the drain on the spa after running the other end down to the wash west of the house. I was mildly surprised by the chunks of ice coming out of the hose as the water started draining. I should have expected that since there was a layer of ice floating on the water in the bucket under the RV drive hose bib.<\/p>\n<p>After we got the spa drained, I went to the spa manual and read the section about winterizing. I have to get out the shop vac and remove the water standing in the spa&#8217;s internal pipes to avoid freezing damage. <\/p>\n<p>I saw a bumper sticker in town the other day that said &#8220;RETIREMENT IS A FULL-TIME JOB.&#8221; I&#8217;m beginning to believe that very thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna and I decided to drain the spa for the winter season. Even though we are likely to get 70&deg; + days during the winter months,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}