{"id":108,"date":"2009-01-05T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-01-05T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T16:50:32","slug":"it-was-supposed-to-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"It was supposed to rain&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;NOT give us an ice storm.\u00a0 An ice storm after drought is particularly tough on trees weakened by drought.<\/p>\n<p>What we&#8217;re having is a mix of rain and freezing rain, with temps at ground level just below freezing.\u00a0 Already the junipers are drooping, limbs weighed down by the ice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0  Here&#8217;s\u00a0 a picture of some backyard trees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_109\" style=\"width: 358px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109\" title=\"icy-trees349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/icy-trees349.jpg\" alt=\"Ice storm\" width=\"348\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/icy-trees349.jpg 348w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/icy-trees349-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ice storm<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Beauty is as beauty does, and this beauty, around here, creates hardship for drought-stricken plants and wildlife both.\u00a0\u00a0 And some for us.\u00a0 Someone will have to hike out later today and check the pumps at the more distant water guzzlers and put out feed in those locations for the winter-resident birds.\u00a0 Drought years mean less natural feed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m watching birds at the backyard feed: blue jays,\u00a0 winter-resident white-crowned sparrows, house sparrows,\u00a0 our winter-resident American goldfinches, Inca and white-winged doves, cardinals.\u00a0 When the icy rain falls most heavily, they retreat to the bushes (esp. the small ones) and only the larger (jays, mostly) come to the corn and sunflower seeds.\u00a0\u00a0 In lulls, out come the little birds&#8211;easy to tell how hard the stuff is falling, just watch the birds.\u00a0 Though the metal roof and the surface of the backyard pond are just as informative.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110\" title=\"icicle-clothespin350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/icicle-clothespin350.jpg\" alt=\"Icy clothespin \" width=\"250\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/icicle-clothespin350.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/icicle-clothespin350-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Icy clothespin <\/p><\/div>\n<p>On days like this (unusual for us)\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad to have a clothes dryer as well as a clothesline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;NOT give us an ice storm.\u00a0 An ice storm after drought is particularly tough on trees weakened by drought. What we&#8217;re having is a mix of rain and freezing rain, with temps at ground level just below freezing.\u00a0 Already the junipers are drooping, limbs weighed down by the ice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s\u00a0 a picture of some backyard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28,70,69],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather","tag-ice-storm","tag-photography","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.80acresonline.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}