{"id":2490,"date":"2008-12-13T09:02:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T17:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-12-13T09:02:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T17:02:03","slug":"first-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"First Installment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed something. whenever there is an interesting celestial event like a full moon closer to the earth than normal, we have cloudy weather.\u00a0 We do get interesting weather during celestial events, however.\u00a0 Yesterday was no exception, but on the good side we did get a good fluffy five inches of snow for the first installment of two weather systems colliding over the top of our mountain.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28\" title=\"dec12-1\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/dec12-1.jpg\" alt=\"Chickadees decorate our snow covered trees\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chickadees decorate our snow covered trees<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Forecast is for heavy snowfall today, and a serious drop in temperatures.\u00a0 The Canadian air mass is strong and already heading our way.\u00a0 Yesterday, we occupied our time splitting enough firewood to fill the rack on the front deck, and getting the snowplow attached to the front of our Polaris Ranger.\u00a0 We took care of grocery shopping the day before.\u00a0 The main county road won&#8217;t be plowed until some time on Monday.\u00a0 I will be able to pretend I&#8217;m snowed in until mid Monday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29\" title=\"dec12-2\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/12\/dec12-2.jpg\" alt=\"Grey clouds heavy with moisture, awaiting cold air\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-29\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grey clouds heavy with moisture, awaiting cold air<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dan&#8217;s first question when he saw the snow accumulation was two words:\u00a0 &#8220;Cinnamon Rolls?&#8221;\u00a0 Perhaps today, if we get the foot of snow predicted.\u00a0  Praying for snow here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed something. whenever there is an interesting celestial event like a full moon closer to the earth than normal, we have cloudy weather.\u00a0 We do get interesting weather during celestial events, however.\u00a0 Yesterday was no exception, but on the good side we did get a good fluffy five inches of snow for the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}