{"id":12538,"date":"2022-04-16T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T22:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2022-04-16T15:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T22:00:23","slug":"cold-and-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12538","title":{"rendered":"<font color=blue><b>Cold and Snow<\/font><\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week there was snow on two evenings &#8211; &#8211; Mon into Tues, and Wed into Thur &#8211; &#8211; with record cold temperature. For the Yakima Airport, the 2-day average early in the week was 35.3\u00b0F. Going back to 1948 there as a 2-day mean of 35.5\u00b0.<br \/>\nAfter mid-week it got colder. The mean was 33.8\u00b0. I\u2019m 50 miles north and 1,200 feet higher so likely 3 or 4 degrees colder, but I can\u2019t do a two day average.<br \/>\nThe fruit growers in the region seem to have been lucky in that it has been so cold the buds on their trees, vines, and shrubs have not opened.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grape-vine-bud-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12536\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grape-vine-bud-300x251.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/grape-vine-bud.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/>That is true on the grape vines we have been pruning. The National Weather Services thinks I may see 50\u00b0 this coming Thursday. The plants and I are hoping that is true.  Warming will be sooner over at the vineyard.<br \/>\n By mid-week we should be seeing buds opening as we work.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the snow and cold, I haven\u2019t done much outside.<br \/>\n We only pruned on Thursday and Friday. At home, I kept the wild birds supplied with seeds, and brought in wood for the stove.<br \/>\nI did get a haircut on Tuesday morning. My barber, Kristen, and I both got clumps of wet snow on us on the way into the building. We survived. <\/p>\n<p>With early morning temperatures expected to be below freezing for the next week, I need to bring more wood in, and some of that needs to be split. I\u2019m starting the 18th week of using the wood stove. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Easter-symbols.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"176\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12537\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Easter-symbols.jpg 768w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Easter-symbols-300x69.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\n<font color=blue><b>Keeping track on the Naneum Fan<br \/>\nJohn<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week there was snow on two evenings &#8211; &#8211; Mon into Tues, and Wed into Thur &#8211; &#8211; with record cold temperature. For the Yakima Airport, the 2-day average early in the week was 35.3\u00b0F. Going back to 1948 there as a 2-day mean of 35.5\u00b0. After mid-week it got colder. The mean was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<font color=blue><b>Cold and Snow<\/font><\/b>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-3ge","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12541,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions\/12541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}