{"id":2040,"date":"2010-11-13T10:12:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2010-11-13T10:12:28","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:12:28","slug":"first-real-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"First Real Snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been an extremely uneventful week or so, just the way we like it.\u00a0 Mostly we’ve been watching the few remaining leaves falling, and waiting for snow to fall.\u00a0 We’d seen a few flakes falling, but couldn’t really say it was snowing, just ‘flaking.’\u00a0 I’m really hoping for heavy snowfall this year.\u00a0 I still keep hoping to get snowed in someday.<\/p>\n

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Sidewalk needs shoveling, but wait, it will just melt instead!<\/p><\/div>\n

This morning we woke up to a world transformed overnight into white!\u00a0 It’s so funny, but after just a few weeks of seeing snow everywhere, it becomes hard to imagine things being green again.\u00a0 That is one of the best things about living somewhere with seasonal changes.\u00a0 There is never enough time to get totally sick of one sort of weather pattern before it all changes.<\/p>\n

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The bird feeders are extremely popular this morning.<\/p><\/div>\n

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We changed the angle of the solar panels to compensate for the lower sun in the sky, and theoretically the snow will slide off easily.<\/p><\/div>\n

Not going to see much solar gain from the panels today.\u00a0 Even if we did brush them off the sky is overcast.\u00a0 That means we will need to run the generator today.\u00a0 And that means we need to put some gas in it.\u00a0 And that means we need to go get some gasoline to put into the generator.\u00a0 And that means we need to put on snow tires.\u00a0 If it isn’t one thing….<\/p>\n

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They only come out at night... mostly.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Snowshoe Hares are changing into their snow white winter coats, and we only have been seeing them at dusk or early morning, before it is really light enough to see.\u00a0 This one was sitting on the sidewalk munching grass that was close enough to reach without getting his paws damp.\u00a0 They will all be completely white in a few more days, at most.\u00a0 They change so fast.\u00a0 And then they will be very miffed at the snow melting, and there is nothing more dangerous than a miffed rabbit.\u00a0 Monty Python documented that, once upon a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been an extremely uneventful week or so, just the way we like it.\u00a0 Mostly we’ve been watching the few remaining leaves falling, and waiting for snow to fall.\u00a0 We’d seen a few flakes falling, but couldn’t really say it was snowing, just ‘flaking.’\u00a0 I’m really hoping for heavy snowfall this year.\u00a0 I still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}