{"id":2708,"date":"2019-02-19T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T06:49:22","slug":"still-snowy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"Still Snowy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2709\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/01bf724d-6c94-46f1-bf66-6ea908868d4d.jpeg\" alt=\"01BF724D-6C94-46F1-BF66-6EA908868D4D\" width=\"2048\" height=\"996\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A week in and the snow is old now. Crusty and heavy and littered everywhere with bits and pieces. Flotsam and jetsam. We still have more than a foot of it in the fields though! And I continue to be thankful for my grassy, muddy paths.<\/p>\n\n<p>I tried to use one of the packed snow paths yesterday, and darned near threw a knee out. Our slick mud doesn\u2019t seem near as slippery as usual; it certainly provides much more traction than ice.<\/p>\n<p>Most Canadian smallholders &#8211; anyone with a yard they need to get around in during winter really &#8211; knows the value of a thoroughly-cleared pathway much more than I did until this year. Here in lotus land, where snow doesn\u2019t keep well, we haven\u2019t needed these winter factoids. But we\u2019re learning. Plus getting a better sense of the chilly conditions our fellow citizens cope with all winter long. Brrrrrrrr. All the respect to my prairie and central Canada-dwelling relatives, friends and co-workers.\u00a0The coast is getting a taste this year of your every-winter reality. And isn\u2019t the sky so blue against the snow! \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2714\" src=\"https:\/\/muddyvalleyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/1c70c5e2-5368-404b-982f-5869f42c7208.jpeg\" alt=\"1C70C5E2-5368-404B-982F-5869F42C7208\" width=\"2048\" height=\"996\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week in and the snow is old now. Crusty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm-life","category-seasons","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestablecomicstore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}