{"id":693,"date":"2009-01-08T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=693"},"modified":"2009-10-31T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-31T17:07:57","slug":"yet-another-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=693","title":{"rendered":"Yet Another Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3175710189\/in\/set-72157611505242524\/\" target=_blank title=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3317\/3175710189_f0663bfb77.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We are truly glad that we&#8217;ve both brought our computers with us, and that we have jobs &#038; occupations which will let us work from wherever we happen to be, as we&#8217;ve heard nothing further from the UK Consulate nor from our US Congressman&#8217;s Office.  So, we&#8217;re kind of just waiting, enjoying all we can of California while trying to remain calm about the whole thing.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Yesterday D. went out to photograph some Autumn leaves (yes, it&#8217;s still mostly Autumn here in California &#8211; except that we call it Fall, instead).  While he was out, he decided to walk up the little hill (50 feet high, at most) outside our friend&#8217;s house, to see what he could see.  To greet him was this pair of young bucks &#8211; probably twins &#8211; one of whom had already dropped his antlers.  They stood and stared at him for awhile, eventually bouncing off down the hill.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>The birds continue to amaze us, as do the squirrels.  They have red squirrels in Scotland, too, but they&#8217;re much smaller than the ones in California.  They also, of course, have the American gray squirrel, which is an invasive species there (someone thought they&#8217;d make for good hunting, apparently).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3175727333\/in\/set-72157611505242524\/\" target=_blank title=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3297\/3175727333_21a79866ff_t.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3175601029\/in\/set-72157611505242524\/\" target=_blank title=\"\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"10\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3115\/3175601029_25fb2510cb_t.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=Indent>We&#8217;ll keep you all posted as to what&#8217;s happening with our travel plans, but unless they overnight our passports tomorrow (or have done so today) we&#8217;ll be delaying our return.  This will cost us \u00a375 (US $110) per ticket, but other than that, it&#8217;s just a hassle.  We&#8217;ll be moving to another friend&#8217;s house on Friday, so that our friend B. can have his bed back (thank you, B!).  From there, it&#8217;s just a matter of doing what we can from here, while canceling all of our obligations in Scotland for the immediate future.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>For a while longer, at least, we&#8217;ll be here, enjoying the wilderness.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>&#8211; D &#038; T<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/80x15.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>This work is licensed under a<br \/>\n<a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are truly glad that we&#8217;ve both brought our computers with us, and that we have jobs &#038; occupations which will let us work from wherever we happen to be, as we&#8217;ve heard nothing further from the UK Consulate nor from our US Congressman&#8217;s Office. So, we&#8217;re kind of just waiting, enjoying all we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}