{"id":874,"date":"2008-11-10T02:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T02:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/10\/2008-11-10-an-open-letter-to-the-idyllwild-weather-clam-html\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T01:27:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T01:27:21","slug":"2008-11-10-an-open-letter-to-the-idyllwild-weather-clam-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-10-an-open-letter-to-the-idyllwild-weather-clam-html\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter To The Idyllwild Weather Clam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Madam,<\/p>\n<p>Boy, were you wrong. Very, not kidding wrong. Let&#8217;s look at today&#8217;s prognostication:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/weather_clam.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/weather_clam.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Idyllwild Weather Clam for 9th November\" \/><\/a><br \/>Sure, I knew it was going to be cold today. I&#8217;d started working on replacing the Door To Nowhere&trade; with a solid, insulated wall. The job yesterday started slowly&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_484.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_484.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Mid-demolition of the Door To Nowhere.\" \/><\/a><br \/>I stripped the panelling and pulled out the insulation to bear witness to the horrors that lie underneath. Essentially, the kooks who put that room together couldn&#8217;t afford a whole lot of boards over eight feet long.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_485.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_485.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Pieces, I got pieces\" \/><\/a><br \/>No big deal, they just hold up the roof. Then there&#8217;s this box that had no purpose that I could discern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_486.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_486.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"What's it for?\" \/><\/a><br \/>What&#8217;s it for? Ah, it&#8217;s used in lieu of a post to hold up those short boards above it. Very clever.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_487.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_487.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ultra-secure door lock.\" \/><\/a><br \/>So things were going okay. The outside bits of panelling came off to reveal more hijinks, so I knocked off for the night. Lola seemed pleased with the quiet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/lola.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/lola.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Black dog.\" \/><\/a><br \/>So I took the rest of the day off to let my back heal. Sunday should be just fine, I&#8217;ve been assured of the by the illustrious, fabled, and nearly perfect Idyllwild Weather Clam I thought. This is what I get for thinking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_488.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_488.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rainy, cold, hail, we've got it all!\" \/><\/a><br \/>It was damp overnight, but nothing to worry about. Foggy and cold I can deal with, so I did. The crazy wall came out leaving a giant hole in the house&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_489.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/idy_489.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A hole to nowhere.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Then the hail came. A big sack of <i>not good<\/i>. This is gonna put a crimp in my plans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madam, Boy, were you wrong. Very, not kidding wrong. Let&#8217;s look at today&#8217;s prognostication: Sure, I knew it was going to be cold today. I&#8217;d started working on replacing the Door To Nowhere&trade; with a solid, insulated wall. The job yesterday started slowly&#8230; I stripped the panelling and pulled out the insulation to bear witness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/2008-11-10-an-open-letter-to-the-idyllwild-weather-clam-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Open Letter To The Idyllwild Weather Clam&#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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8,11],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-house","tag-idyllwild","tag-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}