{"id":20,"date":"2006-03-09T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-09T18:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-07-22T23:49:33","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T06:49:33","slug":"9-march-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"9 March 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The dogs <strong>needed<\/strong> to go out at three-thirty this morning.  And there was a thin layer of <em>white stuff<\/em> all over the ground.  Grumble, cold, grumble.<\/p>\n<p>At five-thirty they wanted fresh water &#8212; their bowl was empty.  I looked out the window.  Still white stuff, and the floors were so <strong>cold<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>At seven-twenty T was talking to the boys who were thinking they might not have school today&#8230;  What?  I pulled myself out of my much-interrupted slumber and sat up.  Yep.  Snow.<\/p>\n<p>So I hopped online.  While the now very fluffy snow fell increasingly thick and insistently.  School hadn&#8217;t even been delayed [sigh of relief], and T poked his nose outside and said it was not going to stick.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, we still have power.  Snow continues to fall in flurries, now sounds like it&#8217;s mixed with some rain.  It&#8217;s not sticking to the roads or driveways, and is melting pretty well on other surfaces also.  Which pleases me, because I really want enough plums to make jelly this year!  And with the blossoms appearing yesterday, the timing of the cold could hardly have been worse.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how the garden fares.  Hoping my happy little  pollinators won&#8217;t be set back by this weather!<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, on my agenda for today is transferring most of my business&#8217; website to the server that hosts our family website; dishes, laundry, sweeping; and working on my handwriting.  Yes folks, I am doing the old-fashioned handwriting drills in a drive to make it easier to write by hand, and to make the lettering I do for art projects a little neater.  We&#8217;ll see how that goes, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The dogs needed to go out at three-thirty this morning. And there was a thin layer of white stuff all over the ground. Grumble, cold, grumble. At five-thirty they wanted fresh water &#8212; their bowl was empty. I looked out the window. Still white stuff, and the floors were so cold&#8230; At seven-twenty T was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}