{"id":489,"date":"2016-04-20T19:40:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2016-04-20T19:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:40:36","slug":"hello-from-evergreen-co-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Hello from Evergreen, CO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tHello from Evergreen, CO\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWednesday evening &ndash; April 20, 2016&nbsp;&nbsp; (fourth &nbsp;post of this travelogue)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOur trip from Silt back to Evergreen was uneventful &ndash; until we got home.&nbsp; The roads were all dry on this leg of the trip.&nbsp; Just before we got to the house, we saw this snowplow in the ditch.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Plow-1-Medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plow 1 (Medium)\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-490\" height=\"195\" src=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Plow-1-Medium-300x195.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWhen we got to the house we parked the rental care in the neighbor&rsquo;s driveway so that we could plow ours out.&nbsp; The snow was amazing.&nbsp; The 45 plus inches had compacted to about 2 feet of heavy wet snow (see photo).\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Snow-1-Medium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Snow 1 (Medium)\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-491\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/beltguy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Snow-1-Medium-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPat&rsquo;s brother came all the way from Elizabeth to help with the clearing effort.&nbsp; By the time we got here, he had cleared a spot for the car (he put his truck there since our car was safe).&nbsp; He then shoveled a path to the house so that Pat could get in.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tI fired up the tractor and started to plow, but the engine was not running well and died often.&nbsp; For the next couple of hours I did some pretty heavy duty troubleshooting.&nbsp; It turned out that the main fuel line was clogged (never would have guessed that one).&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnce the tractor was running, clearing the driveway was not all that big of a deal.&nbsp; I was able to plow where the cars are parked and the sidewalk and that really saved me some backbreaking work.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThat is all for this post and this trip.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello from Evergreen, CO Wednesday evening &ndash; April 20, 2016&nbsp;&nbsp; (fourth &nbsp;post of this travelogue) Our trip from Silt back to Evergreen was uneventful &ndash; until we got home.&nbsp; The roads were all dry on this leg of the trip.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/?p=489\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beltguy.com\/Travelogue\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}