{"id":6215,"date":"2022-09-04T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T18:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/?p=6215"},"modified":"2022-10-31T16:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T23:23:46","slug":"recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/archives\/6215","title":{"rendered":"Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>** 10\/16\/22 update &#8211; The rain has continued, and we got about .25 &#8221; this weekend. (Other areas nearby had more, some over 2&#8243;.) This is by far the longest the monsoons have gone on in or time here. Recording this for future reference.<\/p>\n<p>10\/24\/22 update &#8211; first freeze this week<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s been an odd year here for a variety of reasons. As I&#8217;m looking at the blog, I realize that several interesting things have happened that haven&#8217;t been written about so I&#8217;m doing a catch up post with some highlights.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>After years of waiting, in January, we finally got Starlink internet. It has surpassed our expectations and really changed life here increasing our up and download speeds by about 20-40 times. As a result, we have also cancelled one of our landlines. And we are now in a position to have both electrical power and phone service when the usual service here is down.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Our rain water catchment system is up and operating. We have a 1550 gallon tank behind the house. It feeds a 550 gallon tank that is next to the garden. With the incredible monsoon this year, both tanks are now full.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6218\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123834686-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6219\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220902_123845339_HDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The monsoon has been one of the best since we&#8217;ve been here. They started early (June?) and are still going into September. We&#8217;ve had over eight inches of rain in that time.<br \/>\nEverything is green, green, green, and the canyon behind us has a healthy stream flowing.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6217\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_20220831_150908528_HDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The intensive garden bed we planted did well. We are eating greens, beans, peppers, and tomatoes. There are a few big watermelon and pumpkins yet to be harvested. The zucchini never fruited but have many blooms which I am eating. In the beds we didn&#8217;t plant out, Brad put in a bunch of cowpeas which are thriving and will make the soil more fertile.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>We put in a motion cam at our front gate which has yielded some fun photos of wildlife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[embed-google-photos-album link=&#8221;[embed-google-photos-album link=&#8221;https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/REoD3jaMGQdgRe9w6&#8243; mode=&#8221;carousel&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>This year we are thinking more than usual about how much we value the life we have built here. It is a beautiful life in an amazing place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>** 10\/16\/22 update &#8211; The rain has continued, and we got about .25 &#8221; this weekend. (Other areas nearby had more, some over 2&#8243;.) This is by far the longest the monsoons have gone on in or time here. Recording this for future reference. 10\/24\/22 update &#8211; first freeze this week Well, it&#8217;s been an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,73,188,28],"class_list":["post-6215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bobcat","tag-garden","tag-rainwater-harvesting","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6215"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6276,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6215\/revisions\/6276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kbtechworks.com\/kbranch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}