{"id":5384,"date":"2010-02-13T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T16:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2016-05-16T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T16:10:51","slug":"frosty-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5384","title":{"rendered":"Frosty Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon (Wild)<\/p>\n<p>Outside temp is 11.6 degrees and the dewpoint is around 9.\u00a0 With them so close together, we have two phenomenon at once: more hoarfrost as the water precipitates out on shrubs, tree limbs, fences, porch rails, then freezes and fog.\u00a0 Visibility is low here and the same conditions which create hoarfrost makes roads slick.\u00a0 An odd combination.\u00a0 We also have what looks like snow, but I think is actually flakes forming near the ground as cool air freezes water vapor.\u00a0 Fog is a cloud on or near the earth so we could be witnessing outside what usually happens in the skies above us.<\/p>\n<p>After printing out 40,000 words of new novel (redundant), which represents all I&#8217;ve written so far, I decided this was a good time to revise, go back, get familiar with its arc again after a week off.\u00a0 That&#8217;s underway now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also Saturday, grocery day.\u00a0 I can go any day of the week I want, but my patterning about grocery shopping on Saturday is very strong.\u00a0 I know it, but don&#8217;t change it.<\/p>\n<p>Kate has finished her second week of work.\u00a0 She has come through them in much better shape than pre-surgery, yet she is not without pain.\u00a0 Her neck bothered her last night and her hip has grown progressively worse.\u00a0 She thinks digging the Celica out of the snowbank last week did some damage, so she&#8217;s not taking any of this as too bad a sign just yet.\u00a0 She is visibly better than before, her face less tight at the end of the work day and her movements less stiff.\u00a0 Still, as she says, she&#8217;s rather retire.\u00a0 Soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Moon (Wild) Outside temp is 11.6 degrees and the dewpoint is around 9.\u00a0 With them so close together, we have two phenomenon at once: more hoarfrost as the water precipitates out on shrubs, tree limbs, fences, porch rails, then freezes and fog.\u00a0 Visibility is low here and the same conditions which create hoarfrost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=5384\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frosty Saturday<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,127,3,197],"tags":[2202,111,2151],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-health","category-weather-climate","category-writing","tag-hoarfrost","tag-kate","tag-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41615,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions\/41615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}