{"id":939,"date":"2009-08-24T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mtnmacaw.wordpress.com\/?p=939"},"modified":"2009-08-24T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:32:58","slug":"late-august-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=939","title":{"rendered":"Late August Sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"

The days are noticeably shorter, less than a month away from the autumnal equinox.\u00a0 The sunset last night was beautiful as a direct result of smoke in the air from forest fires to the south and west of us.<\/p>\n

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Not a cloud in the sky as far as our eyes can see.<\/p><\/div>\n

The nights are cooler; this morning our low temperature was 41F (6C).\u00a0 It is so much easier to get a good nights’ sleep in these cooler temperatures.\u00a0 Fall colors are starting to appear in some of the lowest underbrush in the woods.\u00a0 In less than five weeks the trees will begin to turn.\u00a0 So exciting, my favorite season of the year is approaching.<\/p>\n

The hummingbirds are gone now and we have taken the feeders down and cleaned them.\u00a0 Flocks of small birds fly past the house, in and around the bushes and over the tops of nearby trees in the forest.\u00a0 Goldfinch are feasting on grasses heavy with seeds, golden and waving in the breeze, joined by sparrows.\u00a0 In the evening, bats speed through the air around our front porch, harvesting moths and other flying insects drawn to the lights from our windows.<\/p>\n

We caught another packrat on the front deck last night.\u00a0 Mishkin was wild when we got up this morning.\u00a0 He could hear the packrat attempting to escape from the cage but he was unable to see the sound of the noise.\u00a0 He took his wildness out on his stuffed toy lion, and has been running full tilt around the house for a couple of hours.\u00a0 When Dan moved the trap to the edge of the front deck, Opal could see the packrat and she shrieked, letting us know we had caught something; she is really good at stating the obvious.\u00a0 Terry, on the other hand, was unimpressed; it wasn’t a bear.\u00a0 Evidently anything smaller than a Bobcat doesn’t count with that bird.\u00a0 We wonder how many millions of packrats there are on this mountain, and we have come to the realization that we are going to have to continue trapping.<\/p>\n

I’m baking a rice pudding this morning, the good old fashioned kind with raisins and lemon juice and cinnamon.\u00a0 It just went into the oven and it will be a half an hour before it begins to perfume the air.\u00a0 Anticipation of the smell that emanates from the oven is half the fun in baking, and an excellent reason to indulge in such behavior, in and of itself.<\/p>\n

After the pudding comes out of the oven, we are going to go down by the river and take a nice long walk.\u00a0 Mosquitos are history for the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The days are noticeably shorter, less than a month away from the autumnal equinox.\u00a0 The sunset last night was beautiful as a direct result of smoke in the air from forest fires to the south and west of us. The nights are cooler; this morning our low temperature was 41F (6C).\u00a0 It is so much […]<\/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-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","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=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}