{"id":12075,"date":"2012-03-19T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/?p=12075"},"modified":"2012-03-20T13:27:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T20:27:54","slug":"tapias-house-sitting-day-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/19\/tapias-house-sitting-day-five\/","title":{"rendered":"Tapias House Sitting Day Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My final day at the Tapias, after their return from Colorado, began with an early morning flyover of a loud and very large, low-flying military aircraft, descending toward North Island Coronado through the bottom of the dripping rain clouds. Lunch was a plateful of Delimex rolled tacos that Sylvia added deliciously fresh home-made salsa to as we watched the slightly disappointing season finale to &#8220;The Walking Dead&#8221; that was recorded the night before. 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Lunch was a plateful of Delimex rolled tacos that Sylvia added deliciously fresh home-made salsa to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/19\/tapias-house-sitting-day-five\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3,183,181],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1s2SN-38L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12014,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/15\/tapias-house-sitting-day-one\/","url_meta":{"origin":12075,"position":0},"title":"Tapias House Sitting Day One","date":"March 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"After being picked up the night before, spending the night and then dropping them off at the airport long before even the sun got up, I began my house-sitting for the Tapias by getting shots of not only their fur-kids, Lilo and Stitch, but also of a hummingbird that began\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Fauna&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TapiasDay1-01-03-14-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12020,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/17\/tapias-house-sitting-day-three\/","url_meta":{"origin":12075,"position":1},"title":"Tapias House Sitting Day Three","date":"March 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"So today was a really rainy day which meant I was stuck inside. Didn't really mind though since I had fun with Lilo and Stitch, including Lilo helping me get the mail and Stitch playing tug-a-war with his shredded, pink monkey. I also took a bunch more pictures, got updates\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Disney&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/TapiasDay4-01-03-17-12-lo-res.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12065,"url":"https:\/\/www.pacsworlds.com\/blogs\/2012\/03\/18\/tapias-house-sitting-day-four\/","url_meta":{"origin":12075,"position":2},"title":"Tapias House Sitting Day Four","date":"March 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"My last full day of house-sitting for Sylvia and Rodrigo. Started out with occasional heavy downpours and incredibly strong wind gusts, proof of which is the large, broken branch from the neighbor's tree across the street, sandwiched between minutes of blue sky and sunshine. 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