{"id":2201,"date":"2011-03-16T17:25:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=2201"},"modified":"2011-03-16T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T01:25:15","slug":"only-five-days-to-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=2201","title":{"rendered":"Only five days to spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Equinox is next week, and then, maybe, it will stop snowing.\u00a0 But that was not today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good thing we can maintain a sense of humor this time of year.\u00a0 The good thing about snowfalls this time of year is that, generally speaking, they don&#8217;t actually stick to much of anything and just look pretty when they are falling.\u00a0 We really want our driveway to be free of snow and ice.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2224\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/grouse-in-bush1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2224\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2224\" title=\"grouse-in-bush1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/grouse-in-bush1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This hen grouse has been hanging around in the Serviceberry bush next to the house.  She takes big steps over low lying branches.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She looks surprised with her crest sticking straight up.\u00a0 I guess that is a normal state of mind for these little guys.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2225\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/grouse-in-bush2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2225\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2225\" title=\"grouse-in-bush2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/grouse-in-bush2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">She&#039;s in fine feather - a very pretty bird, and much admired by the male Ruffed Grouse in the neighborhood.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday we had to make a trip to town to take care of various and sundry chores.\u00a0 While we were there, we stopped by a pet store to get Mishkin a new scratching post.\u00a0 He&#8217;s so adverse to changes in his world we weren&#8217;t sure he would like it.<\/p>\n<p>We needn&#8217;t have worried.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2227\" style=\"width: 345px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/cat-on-perch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2227\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2227\" title=\"cat-on-perch\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/cat-on-perch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"335\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">He knew immediately that this was HIS!  <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Happy cat.\u00a0 We put his toys inside the tunnel and he fishes them out again and flings them around the livingroom.\u00a0 And there was much rejoicing.\u00a0 We also brought home some hanging chew toys for the parrots.\u00a0 Opal has actually played with hers.\u00a0 The other two are pretending the toys are deadly intruders, but in the morning when they wake up, they will have forgotten the toys are &#8216;new&#8217; and they will proceed to destroy them.\u00a0 Good birds!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2229\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/spring-sky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2229\" title=\"spring-sky\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/spring-sky.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big storms have gone past the mountains today, sprinkling snow as they go.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are no green leaves on any of the bushes around the mountain.\u00a0 Even down in the valley there are only buds.\u00a0 But the buds are getting fatter, so that&#8217;s definitely progress.<\/p>\n<p>Spring, next week&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Equinox is next week, and then, maybe, it will stop snowing.\u00a0 But that was not today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a good thing we can maintain a sense of humor this time of year.\u00a0 The good thing about snowfalls this time of year is that, generally speaking, they don&#8217;t actually stick to much of anything and just [&hellip;]<\/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-2201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201","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=2201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}