{"id":245,"date":"2008-10-29T06:20:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-10-29T06:20:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T11:20:27","slug":"a-short-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=245","title":{"rendered":"A short autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My personal marker for the end of summer is when the tomatoes freeze. If I can still pick fresh tomatoes off the vine, it&#8217;s still summer. This year, they made it until <a href=\"https:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=242\">October 19<\/a>, only ten days ago. The leaves aren&#8217;t all off the red maple in front of the house, I haven&#8217;t raked, and the heat isn&#8217;t on. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, though, autumn seems to have decided to cease. It was cold and blustery, and the winds lasted through the night. And I apparently must do some pruning behind the bedroom; the clatter of branches on the window woke me repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p>My usual morning routine involves reading my email, a few cartoons, the news. And checking the weather, but that may have to stop. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m ready for forecasts like this so early in the morning:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bands of heavy snow will be across the region into mid morning. A band of heavy snow will be from near Grand Valley&#8230;southeast across Ridgway&#8230;to just north of Clearfield. The snow will extend eastward to just north of Snow Shoe. The combination of strong winds and temperatures around freezing&#8230;will result in difficult travel conditions across the higher elevations. Avoid travel until late morning if possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Friends have already <a href=\"https:\/\/antique-spinning-wheels.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/global-warming.html\">been slammed<\/a> with unexpected early snows. It&#8217;s especially rough when the trees still have leaves, because they hold the snow, get heavy, then break. And they <i>always<\/i> manage to take a powerline, or your garage, with them.<\/p>\n<p>This morning&#8217;s consolation: last night&#8217;s fresh whole wheat bread, toasted, with butter and honey, fuel for a cold morning. I came home a bit early yesterday, and made a huge pot of split-pea soup and a loaf of bread, the kind of cooking that doesn&#8217;t usually fit well into my late-from-work evenings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My personal marker for the end of summer is when the tomatoes freeze. If I can still pick fresh tomatoes off the vine, it&#8217;s still summer. This year, they made it until October 19, only ten days ago. The leaves aren&#8217;t all off the red maple in front of the house, I haven&#8217;t raked, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-weather","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}