{"id":1396,"date":"2012-03-15T03:37:23","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2012-03-15T03:37:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T10:37:23","slug":"colorado-in-my-backyard-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1396","title":{"rendered":"Colorado in My Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1397\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Been looking for a new pump to power my waterfall.<\/p>\n<p>You see, about 10 years ago, I decided that, since I couldn\u2019t live in Colorado, I\u2019d bring Colorado to live here\u2014in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>So I got three rather large rocks (each weighed over a ton) and positioned them over a pond to get just the right amount of splash (it\u2019s important to get water on rock and water on water).<\/p>\n<p>Char and I had a little disagreement over the size of the pump. She liked the soft gurgle of a high mountain brook. And I\u2014I enjoyed the roar of a swollen creek plunging over a 600 foot cliff, like at North Clear Creek Falls near Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>So we compromised and got both. The smaller pump ran 24\/7, but, with the flip of a switch, North Clear Creek came to Mable Drive.<\/p>\n<p>The compromise didn\u2019t always work. When we had new friends over, I wanted to introduce them to the roar. Char said folks don\u2019t like to have to shout to be heard. Seriously?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, 10 years ago I got the sound I wanted with a 4100 GPH pump\u2014that\u2019s 4,100 gallons per hour cascading down my five-foot falls. When that pump wore out, the best I was able to do locally was a 3,000 GPH unit.<\/p>\n<p>So I\u2019m looking online today, and guess what? A California Company makes a 5500 GPH pump that still needs only 110 volts of electricity. This baby weighs 17 pounds and can pump to a height of 33 feet. Hey, that\u2019s a three-story waterfall.<\/p>\n<p>And UPS can get it here in four days.<\/p>\n<p>My wife leaves tomorrow to visit a daughter and grandkids in North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Just sayin\u2019. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been looking for a new pump to power my waterfall. You see, about 10 years ago, I decided that, since I couldn\u2019t live in Colorado, I\u2019d bring Colorado to live here\u2014in the backyard. So I got three rather large rocks (each weighed over a ton) and positioned them over a pond to get just the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1398,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1396\/revisions\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}