{"id":8777,"date":"2011-09-09T18:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T00:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=8777"},"modified":"2011-09-10T13:55:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T19:55:52","slug":"smokin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/09\/smokin\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokin&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep11\/Smokin1738.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep11\/Smokin1738.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are no close active fires, but the current weather conditions have allowed smoke to drift into the Flathead Valley and stay here.  Farmer\/Ranchers are working long days to get in wheat and hay:  combines have been visibile in 2&#8217;s and 3&#8217;s working large acreage.  I think they are close to being done.  The combines add dust to the stagnant, smoky air.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep11\/Smokin1737.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep11\/Smokin1737.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a fairly mild summer, late August and early September decided to show a bit of heat&#8230;and dry&#8230;and crisp.  Good for the wheat and hay gathering, but always a bit scary for fires.  <\/p>\n<p>The good news about the smoke and dust is that it has kept the valley heat from getting as hot as originally forecast.  Nights have been cool in the 40&#8217;s.  This time of year it takes all day to heat up and it cools quickly in the early evening so it is a more manageable heat than June and July.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep11\/Smokin1739.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Sep11\/Smokin1739.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still&#8230;smoke, dust, unusual September heat&#8230;there is no where I&#8217;d rather be than my house on the road home.<\/p>\n<p><em><smaller>And just a little note&#8230;it was a VERY good work week, a VERY good week with Bear off leash AND an ok week for Bob whose blood glucose we are having a wee bit of trouble getting in line&#8230;he is fine, the numbers are just wacky which means a glucose curve &#8211; RATS! <\/smaller><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no close active fires, but the current weather conditions have allowed smoke to drift into the Flathead Valley and stay here. Farmer\/Ranchers are working long days to get in wheat and hay: combines have been visibile in 2&#8217;s and 3&#8217;s working large acreage. I think they are close to being done. The combines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-montana","category-photos"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8777"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8792,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8777\/revisions\/8792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}