{"id":638195,"date":"2009-01-01T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/0319df9.netsolhost.com\/blog\/?p=638195"},"modified":"2012-05-03T11:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T18:42:22","slug":"december-at-our-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/december-at-our-home\/","title":{"rendered":"December at our Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been an unusual December for us. We live in an area, where snow is rare. When we do get it, often the limbs start breaking off of the trees and landing on power lines and then we spend days without power. A couple of years ago, when we had quite a bit of snow, we were without power for 10 days. Our problem is that we live in a semi-rural area, near a large metropolitan area and so we are served last. <\/p>\n<p>This December has been different though. We have had snow&mdash;lots of snow&mdash;more snow than we&rsquo;ve ever had before. It&rsquo;s been beautiful&mdash;lots of photo ops. It&rsquo;s been slick&mdash;bad driving conditions. It&rsquo;s been cold&mdash;I&rsquo;ve been wearing my coat in the house. And we haven&rsquo;t lost our electricity yet for even five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The kids love snow. They have been sledding and sledding and sledding.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a title=\"Pulling Sled up the hill by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3157345247\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Pulling Sled up the hill\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3262\/3157345247_71132a194d_o.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Zippy and Uncles Sledding by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3157345093\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Zippy and Uncles Sledding\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3133\/3157345093_a5ccdf1a26_o.jpg\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boys sledding by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3158176248\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Boys sledding\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3258\/3158176248_1bb9abbe5c_o.jpg\" \/><\/a> \n<\/div>\n<p>\nMy husband loves snow. He has been taking pictures and more pictures and more pictures. Here are some of my favorites that he took.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"> <a title=\"Snow Covered Apples by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3157348817\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Snow Covered Apples\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3126\/3157348817_931b5a08b4_o.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Barn in Snow by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3158188450\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Barn in Snow\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3105\/3158188450_c6a0e08487_o.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bluebirds in Snow by prayingmother, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/prayingmother\/3158183878\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"340\" alt=\"Bluebirds in Snow\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3099\/3158183878_55bf3b093a_o.jpg\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI don&rsquo;t love snow. I have been trying to stay warm, but I did go sledding a little and I&rsquo;ve taken a few pictures too.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m glad we&rsquo;ve had all this snow and I&rsquo;ll also be glad when it&rsquo;s gone. But it&#8217;s made for a fun December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been an unusual December for us. We live in an area, where snow is rare. When we do get it, often the limbs start breaking off of the trees and landing on power lines and then we spend days without power. A couple of years ago, when we had quite a bit of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782931,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638195\/revisions\/782931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.preparationeducation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}