{"id":14171,"date":"2021-01-14T22:29:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T21:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14171"},"modified":"2021-01-15T22:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T21:41:57","slug":"daily_2192_-_prints_in_snow_and_ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/01\/14\/daily_2192_-_prints_in_snow_and_ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2192 &#8211; prints in snow and ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2192_footprints.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nReal winter seems to have arrived all of a sudden. Masses of snow, and below-zero temperatures as well, so we might even get to keep the snow for a while.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a good while cleaning the snow from the stairs and the driveway. I learned from painful experience, early in my days as homeowner in Nordic climes, that you cannot leave snow until later and clean it when you feel like it. Any place that you want to be snow-free at some point needs to be kept snow-free from the very beginning. If you wait, the snow will compact and freeze into an unmovable mass, especially where people walk on it, so the best thing is to shovel as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows that paths and driveways need shovelling. Other things that need cleaning, that I had never thought of until we moved here, include rubbish bins and the mailbox.<\/p>\n<p>The car took the most time, by far. Yes, we have a garage. Technically we even have a double garage. But the door on one side is effectively unusable, and we use the other side for bicycles. If we put the car in there, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to get the bikes out past the car. Short of lifting them over the car, which is about as convenient as it sounds. We drive very rarely these days (what&#8217;s there to drive to in these corona-affected times, anyway?) so we prioritize the bikes. Still, just in case we do end up needing the car for something, I got most of the snow off of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real winter seems to have arrived all of a sudden. Masses of snow, and below-zero temperatures as well, so we might even get to keep the snow for a while. I spent a good while cleaning the snow from the stairs and the driveway. I learned from painful experience, early in my days as homeowner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14173,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14171\/revisions\/14173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}