{"id":326,"date":"2008-10-14T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T21:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/10\/14\/snow-in-october\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:34","slug":"snow-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2008\/10\/14\/snow-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow in October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/68123932@N00\/2939086327\" title=\"View 'The patio' on Flickr.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3287\/2939086327_e2f120a334_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"The patio\" border=\"0\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m back from Regina, where I spent the Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice to be home for a few days, but the weather was not what I was expecting.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night, Regina got 17 cm of snow. Call it a Prairie October surprise!<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/dave_traynor\/sets\/72157608006578391\/\">posted some pics from the snowfall<\/a> on my Flickr account, if you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I noticed was that come morning, the streets were filled with people with shovels, winter boots, coats, toques and mitts, calmly cleaning up the mess. There were even a few guys with snowblowers out getting a little pre-season training in. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way it is on the Prairies. They&#8217;re used to snow and when it arrives, they&#8217;re not put out by it. Quite the opposite of the chaos that erupts here in Victoria when those occasional blizzards show up (<a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/dave_traynor\/sets\/72157594395038217\/\">like this one<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Even with the snow, there&#8217;s no place quite as nice as our cottage in the fall. My son and I were out there the day before the snowfall, cleaning up the yard and closing up the cottage for another year. I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s still in our family, even if it is a few thousand kms from where we&#8217;re living now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m back from Regina, where I spent the Thanksgiving weekend. It was nice to be home for a few days, but the weather was not what I was expecting. Sunday night, Regina got 17 cm of snow. Call it a Prairie October surprise! I posted some pics from the snowfall on my Flickr account, if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/2939086327_e2f120a334_m.jpg?fit=240%2C180&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-5g","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1180,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/1180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}