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We have had rain off and on, it’s cool and crisp and last night rained all night and continues this morning.\u00a0 All fire restrictions were lifted the beginning of this week.\u00a0 The time was right – first fall fire in the woodstove!\u00a0 A bit odd this year after all of the scare of fire during the summer.<\/p>\n
But, suddenly the weather forecast is much cooler, much wetter and snow levels are dropping with each front.\u00a0 The leaves are turning on the aspen and birch but the larch pine are still green – usually the color here peaks about mid-October.\u00a0 No fire-reds or oranges here like the east but\u00a0the brilliant blaze of yellow and gold mixed with the ever green is still beautiful.<\/p>\n
There is usually not much time between the end of the color and the first snow – every year I’ve lived in Montana (since Feb ’94) it has at least flurried on Halloween.\u00a0 And often it gets very cold and we get a first heavy snow in early November.\u00a0 So, yesterday was spent putting away mower and trimmer and getting the snowblower ready to go.\u00a0 Garden and lawn stuff to the rear – shovels and snowblower to the fore.\u00a0 In the next couple of weeks it will be time to put the driveway edge markers in place – so much easier when you can see the edge of the driveway :) !<\/p>\n
The change of seasons is not subtle in Montana.\u00a0 We seem to always blast from one into the next.\u00a0 The summer-fall transition is my favorite as I’m never sorry to leave the heat of summer behind.\u00a0 The last several weeks of balmy days and lots of sunshine have been wonderful.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we’ll start being cold and damp and I always say that it feels colder during this first cold, wet time then in the dead of winter as I adjust to different temps and humidity – the fire feels pretty good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have had rain off and on, it’s cool and crisp and last night rained all night and continues this morning.\u00a0 All fire restrictions were lifted the beginning of this week.\u00a0 The time was right – first fall fire in the woodstove!\u00a0 A bit odd this year after all of the scare of fire during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings","category-montana","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22199,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/22199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}