{"id":366,"date":"2009-03-25T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-03-25T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:30:11","slug":"how-do-you-make-it-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"How do you make it snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:  Threaten to wash the cars.  That&#8217;s really all it takes, and not even a threat, just a spoken outloud intention to do so, while outside so that the weather gods can hear you.\u00a0 So, it has been snowing recently, since said intention was voiced over the weekend.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t accumulating, but Mother Nature is letting us know she&#8217;s listening and will smite us if we continue thinking crazy thoughts.\u00a0 On the upside, both our cars look alike even though they are technically different colors, and they closely resemble the color and texture of our dirt road.<\/p>\n<p>Our migratory bird population continues to expand with a new species or two arriving every few days.\u00a0 It&#8217;s pretty exciting to hear Varied Thrush singing in the woods.\u00a0 They won&#8217;t stay here as the climate is too dry, so they&#8217;re just sort of practicing their singing technique on the way to their breeding grounds.\u00a0 No matter, we&#8217;ll take it while we can get it.\u00a0 The ethereal notes are wonderful.\u00a0 A Sharp-shinned Hawk just flew through the yard, causing an explosion of birds.<\/p>\n<p>We have a deceased propane generator.\u00a0 The repair guy was here yesterday and left, shaking his head and vowing to review the repair manual overnight to come up with some suggestions on how to fix it.\u00a0 The obvious things have been studied and ruled out as the cause of its demise.\u00a0 Now it is something esoteric \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 We both hate mechanical equipment when it doesn&#8217;t work, and have virtually no patience for dealing with such things.<\/p>\n<p>The snow is melting overall; we&#8217;re down to a foot of it on the ground.\u00a0 Our driveway is now a sheet of ice with only a few deep soft spots.\u00a0 And today the sun appears like it is going to shine, so the solar panels will feed the batteries properly.\u00a0 Yeah!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we are driving to Coeur d&#8217;Alene to attend a fiber arts festival, a spin-in.\u00a0 That is assuming Dan doesn&#8217;t get crazy and actually wash a car, thereby causing a blizzard of epic proportions.<\/p>\n<p>I had fun this afternoon making muffins.\u00a0 I made two kinds.\u00a0 One is Banana Nut Muffins, and the other is a Cornmeal and Blueberry Muffin in a heart shaped muffin tin.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_369\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"size-full wp-image-369\" title=\"muffins\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/muffins.jpg\" alt=\"Banana Nut  and Cornmeal Blueberry - which to choose??  Great problem!\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/muffins.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/muffins-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banana Nut  and Cornmeal Blueberry - which to choose??  Great problem!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dan and Mishkin are enjoying watching television.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_370\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-370\" class=\"size-full wp-image-370\" title=\"dannmish\" src=\"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/dannmish.jpg\" alt=\"At least they aren't arguing about the remote control\" width=\"460\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dannmish.jpg 500w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/dannmish-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least they aren&#39;t arguing about the remote control<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dan cooperates by providing belly rubs on demand.\u00a0 Mishkin has come to expect this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: Threaten to wash the cars. That&#8217;s really all it takes, and not even a threat, just a spoken outloud intention to do so, while outside so that the weather gods can hear you.\u00a0 So, it has been snowing recently, since said intention was voiced over the weekend.\u00a0 It isn&#8217;t accumulating, but Mother Nature is [&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-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}