{"id":5858,"date":"2024-01-05T17:49:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2024-01-05T17:49:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T17:49:37","slug":"new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=5858","title":{"rendered":"New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We got a little bit of snow in December, which promptly melted. Then it snowed again. Then it melted again. Since the weather has been a little boring we’ve been keeping up with that theme and not doing much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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December 13th was one of our snowy days.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The world feels smaller with no mountains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The trees are so beautiful with their frosting of snowflakes. Because the temperature was just barely below freezing, it felt like spring more than a week before the Winter Solstice. It didn’t last as the temperatures went near 40F and everything melted again. It’s been a very easy winter for the deer and other animals. Food has been much easier to come by.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chickadees are loving the location of the bird feeder. They use the lilac bush in front of our porch as a convenient party place.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The buds on the lilac are already much bigger than previous years. I hope they have a sense of humor as the temperatures predicted in a few days are -6F. We hope our strawberry plants also have a sense of humor! They will have no protective blanket of snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some perl cotton embroidery thread in various pale colors, for more bead knitted purselets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I had fun with knitting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This one is all about the blues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This one was to commemorate the volcano in Iceland. There is a strap on the finished purse but I didn’t take a picture of it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My friend Cassandra calls this one peppermint.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Three that didn’t get named.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pale lavender yarn and some amethyst beads, and crystals.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So I got that out of my system for the moment. And I ran out of beads and haven’t gone shopping. So on to a new larger project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First pattern repeat for the bottom border. I’m up to 12 border repeats so far, out of 34. Not exactly blazing fast as it is too boring and puts me to sleep almost immediately.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s amazing how huge the size 1 US needles feel after all the bead knitted purses which were made using size 0000 US steel needles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yesterday we had to run an errand in town and I thought a picture of our snow around the house might be interesting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’s pretty amazing! We’ve never seen the snow this low around here. The mountains around us are also extremely low on snow pack, which means this next summer could be “interesting” in terms of forest fires unless a miracle happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We got a little bit of snow in December, which promptly melted. Then it snowed again. Then it melted again. Since the weather has been a little boring we’ve been keeping up with that theme and not doing much. The trees are so beautiful with their frosting of snowflakes. Because the temperature was just barely […]<\/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-5858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858","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=5858"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5858\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}