{"id":270,"date":"2009-06-23T03:23:26","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T09:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=270"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:45:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T19:45:07","slug":"our-little-house-at-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Our Little House at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far we have not posted pictures of our little house we rented for our stay in Christchurch. Here are some pics for you.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0023.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0023.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A view from our drive way, up the walk. This is from the summer &#8211; February I think.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/doreeninyard.jpg\" alt=\"doreeninyard.jpg\" width=\"428\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mom Doreen came for a visit and wanted a picture of the yard before she left. I think this is just before we drive her to the airport at the end of her visit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/p1040107.jpg\" alt=\"p1040107.jpg\" width=\"256\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jack had a sleep over with some friends. Gideon brought the chips and cards as they had an interesting game of Texas Hold\u00e2\u20ac\u2122em. Two of them did not know how to play, so it was a short game&#8230; This picture is to show you how big the dining area is.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0029.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0029.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The dining area with two sets of patio doors. There are two more sets of patio doors in the room just beside the dining area (just to the right in this picture) On a nice sunny day this makes a great place to sit and read a book.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0033.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0033.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a view from the front door. This is Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uncle John when he and Beth came for a visit. It was great to see them again. This is taken from just inside the front door.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0024.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0024.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another view of the front again, this is from just inside the gate. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0026.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0026.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the porch looking in. The kitchen and bathroom is just off to the left.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0028.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0028.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the small kitchen. Bathroom is just to the right, past the fridge. The master bedroom is to the right of the kitchen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0030.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0030.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A shot from the front door looking to the yard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/dsc-3877.jpg\" alt=\"dsc-3877.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is the back yard, outside the patio doors of the dining room. The back and side yard is all just a porch. The neighbours are right on the other side of the fence. The lot where this house is used to be a big lot, and it got subdivided into a few smaller lots. Will made a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153snow ball\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from the hail we got in March.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/imgp0022.jpg\" alt=\"imgp0022.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A view from the side walk. The mailbox.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/viewfromabove.jpg\" alt=\"viewfromabove.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is a view from above. Our house is at the bottom left of the screen. (The one with the green car in the driveway.) Notice how close it was to the beach. \ud83d\ude42 Just to the right of the clock tower is a beach caf\u00c3\u00a9 where we had many great lunches and I had coffee breaks from work. Also check out how close the back neighbour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house really is!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/4heberdenfront.jpg\" alt=\"4heberdenfront.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The house, appropriately with the Canadian flag windsock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far we have not posted pictures of our little house we rented for our stay in Christchurch. Here are some pics for you. A view from our drive way, up the walk. This is from the summer &#8211; February I think. Sarah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mom Doreen came for a visit and wanted a picture of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/?p=270\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Little House at the Beach<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":349,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebirds.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}