{"id":12813,"date":"2022-11-19T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12813"},"modified":"2022-11-19T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T21:59:56","slug":"a-dull-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12813","title":{"rendered":"A dull week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Western-Larch-aka-Tamarack-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12812\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Western-Larch-aka-Tamarack-224x300.jpg 224w, http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Western-Larch-aka-Tamarack.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 85vw, 224px\" \/>Other than the local NWS weather station stopping, nothing much is going on. The Ellensburg airport Automated Surface Observing Systems (ASOS) hasn&#8217;t worked since the 17th, Thursday, at 12:55 pm. A station 26 miles west, near Cle Elum, at a Highway maintenance area called Bullfrog does work, and I have outside sensors. This being Saturday, the down time will last until Monday or Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Outside in the Sun, it \u201cfeels like\u201d 40 degrees. Each day I get something done \u2013 cleaning up an old mess, or putting time in on a active project. I have a new covered feeding area for the Quail and smaller birds, and the deer can&#8217;t get in. I still have one of the older places to dismantle, but one is gone. The remaining one can be \u201cdisappeared\u201d in about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon I intend to mulch leaves with the push-type lawn mower. I&#8217;ve raked about \u00bd the Walnut leaves and carried them to where I will plant onions next March. [I checked this: for nouns ending in f {leaf} there is not a grammar rule. You just have to know the plural is leaves. Why is this?]<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.grammar-monster.com\/plurals\/plural_of_leaf.htm<\/p>\n<p>The tree photo is from here:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"lcW0Wh2MpD\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/nativeplantspnw.com\/western-larch-larix-occidentalis\/\">Western Larch, Larix occidentalis<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Western Larch, Larix occidentalis&#8221; &#8212; Native Plants PNW\" src=\"https:\/\/nativeplantspnw.com\/western-larch-larix-occidentalis\/embed\/#?secret=lcW0Wh2MpD\" data-secret=\"lcW0Wh2MpD\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Locally, many folks call these trees Tamaracks and are preferred firewood.  They tend to not have large side-limbs, meaning very small knots. Thus, they have straight grain and are easily split.<br \/>\nThey prefer the north-facing (damp) slopes of the mountains. They are more of a Rocky Mountain species, but the western higher parts of Kittitas County have plenty. I obtained some and they grow here if I water them. When I don&#8217;t get enough water on (this year), they have a dull yellow fall color. They are a deciduous conifer; the needles turn a golden color in the fall, then shed. Check the link for more photos.<\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving Day is forecast to be in the 50s and sunny.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll say thanks to that.<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other than the local NWS weather station stopping, nothing much is going on. The Ellensburg airport Automated Surface Observing Systems (ASOS) hasn&#8217;t worked since the 17th, Thursday, at 12:55 pm. A station 26 miles west, near Cle Elum, at a Highway maintenance area called Bullfrog does work, and I have outside sensors. This being Saturday, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/?p=12813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A dull week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12813","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-3kF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12813","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=12813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12815,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12813\/revisions\/12815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}