{"id":23188,"date":"2024-10-21T16:47:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=23188"},"modified":"2024-10-21T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T14:49:14","slug":"cocooned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/cocooned\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocooned"},"content":{"rendered":"

I removed all of my house’s shutters a few weeks ago just before we had a period of wet weather. They still haven’t been painted and I wanted to keep them as dry as possible until I could get around to the job, preferably this side of the winter, and since then they’ve been standing covered, not very effectively, with plastic sheeting in my porch. This has meant that it’s been difficult getting in and out of my front door, especially when carrying anything bulky, but more importantly, edges of some of the shorter shutters were still being exposed to driving rain.<\/p>\n

So the time had come to recognise that there’s now no way that they’re going to get painted until the spring. I’ve still got to prep my old caravan for sale and that’s the priority, not just to get it sold and out of the way, but also because now’s the time to find a buyer who has a house or building project kicking off in the spring. I’ve cleaned the outside but I’ve still got to go right through its interior and try to tidy up its entrance door a bit.<\/p>\n

So today’s task, in a surprise temperature of nearly 80 degrees F, was to find somewhere safe for the shutters where they could be kept clean, dry and as free from insects as possible. I decided on a spot under the trees in the front of the house behind my tool store and I stacked them up on wood blocks off the ground totally cocooned in thick plastic sheet. I’m pretty sure that the stink bugs will find their way in as a place to die over the winter but hopefully they’ll stay dry as the sheeting is completely wrapped around them, over and under.<\/p>\n

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So although I’ll have to keep any eye on them to ensure that the wind doesn’t get under the sheeting, that should be it until the spring. That may seem a long way away but before you know it Christmas will be upon us, the leaves will be sprouting and turning green again and it’ll be time for me to get stuck in and get painting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I removed all of my house’s shutters a few weeks ago just before we had a period of wet weather. They still haven’t been painted and I wanted to keep them as dry as possible until I could get around to the job, preferably this side of the winter, and since then they’ve been standing … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23190,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23188\/revisions\/23190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}