{"id":3825,"date":"2015-01-11T18:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2015-01-11T18:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T18:43:18","slug":"very-busy-doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Very busy, doing nothing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not totally nothing.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been getting new seed catalogs in the mail, and thinking about what we want to plant next year.\u00a0 And thinking about all the strawberries (hopefully!), I&#8217;ll have to play with in June.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3835\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mish-undercouch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3835\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3835\" title=\"mish-undercouch\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mish-undercouch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"547\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mish-undercouch.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mish-undercouch-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mishkin hiding under the couch, glaring at the fact the housekeeper was here.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He was growling and hissing at her, so Dan used the cat attitude adjustment tool, aka squirt bottle, and chased him up the stairs.\u00a0 He came down about five minutes later, and crawled under the couch, and resumed giving dirty looks to all and sundry, mainly Dan who had managed to get a few minute drops of water on him.<\/p>\n<p>We had really cold weather in December, -13F one morning and then several other mornings well below zero.\u00a0 Then it fogged in and we didn&#8217;t see the sun at all.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3836\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ice-crystals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3836\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3836\" title=\"ice-crystals\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ice-crystals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ice-crystals.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ice-crystals-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Everything outside was covered with ice crystals, well over an inch long.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Trees, bushes, dry grasses sticking up out of the snow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3837\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icecrystals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3837\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3837\" title=\"icecrystals\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icecrystals.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icecrystals.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icecrystals-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It was a fairy land outside, until the wind kicked up and blew everything away.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then it warmed up and snowed a bunch.\u00a0 And then it warmed up more and the snow melted.\u00a0 And then it snowed again about a foot, which is where we are today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3838\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icicles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3838\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3838\" title=\"icicles\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icicles.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icicles.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/icicles-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The snow hasn&#39;t fallen off the roof by the living room (yet), and the icicles are growing all sorts of weird angles as the snow curls around.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve thought about trying to knock off this icy edge of snow and ice hanging out over the edge of the roof, but it looks a little intimidating so I&#8217;ll just not and say I did.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3839\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/snowy-greenhouse1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3839\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3839\" title=\"snowy-greenhouse1\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/snowy-greenhouse1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/snowy-greenhouse1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/snowy-greenhouse1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even the greenhouse is dreaming of spring.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And it&#8217;s doing it&#8217;s imitation of a glacier as the snow started oozing over the side and hanging down.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3840\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/avalanche.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3840\" title=\"avalanche\" src=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/avalanche.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/avalanche.jpg 650w, https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/avalanche-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And then it shook off the snow cover with an impressive avalanche.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we&#8217;re back to being in a fog bank.\u00a0 Figures.\u00a0 I&#8217;d really like to see the comet but we won&#8217;t see the sky at all until this fog goes away and it shows no signs of wanting to do that.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m playing in the kitchen.\u00a0 I fixed coleslaw and I&#8217;m making pizza.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t hardly imagine everything green outside, but we&#8217;ll be planting lettuce and greens in the greenhouse in two months, and potatoes in the garden in mid April.\u00a0 It will be here before we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, not totally nothing.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve been getting new seed catalogs in the mail, and thinking about what we want to plant next year.\u00a0 And thinking about all the strawberries (hopefully!), I&#8217;ll have to play with in June. &nbsp; He was growling and hissing at her, so Dan used the cat attitude adjustment tool, aka squirt 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