{"id":285,"date":"2007-07-23T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/seen-on-the-side-of-the-road\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:54:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:54:43","slug":"seen-on-the-side-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/seen-on-the-side-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Seen on the side of the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/873144965\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1068\/873144965_af6abcc870_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);\" \/><\/a><br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/873144965\/\">Weather Vane<\/a><br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/big_dadoo\/\">Big Dadoo<\/a><br \/> <\/span><\/div>\n<p>The things you can see on the side of the road can be truly amazing. This for instance is a functioning weather vane, it&#8217;s actually balanced and spins in the breeze.<\/p>\n<p>I spotted this on Hwy 3 on the way back from St-Leon where I was checking out the wind turbine farm. Announced in 2004 there are 63 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/big_dadoo\/873993878\">these<\/a> producing 99MW. These wind turbines are quite big and scattered all over the place. I&#8217;d really anticipated that they would be much more tightly grouped. For more technical details you can check on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vestas.com\/vestas\/global\/en\/Products\/Wind_turbines\/V82_1_65.htm\">specs<\/a> or some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.mb.ca\/est\/energy\/wind\/pdf\/stleons_wind_brochure.en.pdf\">overview material<\/a> on the whole project.<\/p>\n<p>On the trip there and back I did some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocaching.com\">geocaching<\/a> and as always got to see some of the country side that I&#8217;d normally drive right on by. It was a hot day so the air conditioned drive between stops was much appreciated. I took in some sights in Carmen, St-Leon, Sumerset, Roseisle, Notre Dame de Lourdes and a historic church in Cardinal. I&#8217;m not sure if it was the heat or just the laid back country life but almost everything was closed and I saw very few people outside. Some of the towns almost seemed like <a href=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1016\/873995504_bb4ef91d3d_o.jpg\">ghost towns<\/a>.<br \/><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather Vane Originally uploaded by Big Dadoo The things you can see on the side of the road can be truly amazing. This for instance is a functioning weather vane, it&#8217;s actually balanced and spins in the breeze. I spotted this on Hwy 3 on the way back from St-Leon where I was checking out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}