{"id":19242,"date":"2014-11-13T08:03:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2014-11-13T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T16:03:44","slug":"maunderings-from-the-deep-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/maunderings-from-the-deep-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Maunderings from the deep freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; how are y&#8217;all enjoying the deep freeze? Seems as if it&#8217;s settling in to stay, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re just on the edge of it here in the North(currently not so)Wet &#8212; cozy compared with some of you. But it&#8217;s clear and cold and fiercely windy and I&#8217;m ready to stay indoors surrounded by space heaters.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder if I could teach the dogs to use the toilet? Or just encourage them to go walk in the woods by themselves?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m still having not much darned luck with &#8220;listening to silence&#8221; (e.g. sitting meditation), this week has felt both blessedly serene <i>and<\/i> productive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m working on something. Too early to talk about it; probably even mentioning it right now is hazardous to the creative process. Very likely it&#8217;ll come to nothing.<\/p>\n<p>But if my brain must always be busy-busy-busy it&#8217;s a pleasure to have it busy on something potentially useful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have tons of new or deep stuff to say right now. So here&#8217;s a nice time waster. Can you find the snipers (or hunters, if you prefer) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weather.com\/news\/can-you-find-snipers-hiding-these-photos-20141030\" target=\"_blank\">in these pix<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a first. It&#8217;s so cold this morning that when all three critters in the household had a chance to get up on a cot in front of a nice, warm heat source, they jumped at the chance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/2014\/11\/13\/maunderings-from-the-deep-freeze\/dogsandcatsnoozingonacoldmorning_111314\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19245\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/DogsandCatSnoozingonaColdMorning_111314-450x324.jpg\" alt=\"DogsandCatSnoozingonaColdMorning_111314\" width=\"450\" height=\"324\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-19245\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So &#8230; how are y&#8217;all enjoying the deep freeze? Seems as if it&#8217;s settling in to stay, doesn&#8217;t it? We&#8217;re just on the edge of it here in the North(currently not so)Wet &#8212; cozy compared with some of you. But it&#8217;s clear and cold and fiercely windy and I&#8217;m ready to stay indoors surrounded by space heaters. Wonder if I could teach the dogs to use the toilet? Or just encourage them to go walk in the woods by themselves? &#8212;&#8211; Though I&#8217;m still having not much darned luck with &#8220;listening to silence&#8221; (e.g. sitting meditation), this week has felt&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/13\/maunderings-from-the-deep-freeze\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Maunderings from the deep freeze<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,18,19,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-mind-and-spirit","category-miscellaneous","category-the-retreat","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}