{"id":9289,"date":"2011-11-14T22:04:29","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=9289"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:04:29","slug":"a-pretty-good-impression-of-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2011\/11\/a-pretty-good-impression-of-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"A pretty good impression of Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just inside from a last outing with Bear&#8230;8:46 p.m.  The sky was mostly clear and the stars plentiful.  It was 28F but did not feel bad as I stood and watched Bear make his rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The kettle is on for my cup of &#8220;Get some zzz&#8217;s&#8221; tea and as soon as I publish and power down, I&#8217;m off to bed after a good day of work and play.<\/p>\n<p>There were several short squalls with heavy snow and biting wind throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2815.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2815.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I needed to get the motorhome to town for propane.  It would not go one more night without a fill.  About 11:30, the sun came out and the dusting of snow from the morning squalls melted.<\/p>\n<p>Bear and I went quickly to Bigfork, filled the beast and returned.  I was walking to the house when I noticed the sky had darkened and the wind was coming up.<\/p>\n<p>The best squall yet started fast and furious and kept up for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2816.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2816.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Suddenly it didn&#8217;t look like Fall anymore.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2823.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2823.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It left about an inch of snow that stayed despite a feeble attempt at some late afternoon sunshine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2814.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Nov11\/Snow2814.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pretty good impression of Winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m just inside from a last outing with Bear&#8230;8:46 p.m. The sky was mostly clear and the stars plentiful. It was 28F but did not feel bad as I stood and watched Bear make his rounds. The kettle is on for my cup of &#8220;Get some zzz&#8217;s&#8221; tea and as soon as I publish and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289","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=9289"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9295,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9289\/revisions\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}