{"id":2143,"date":"2013-04-14T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T13:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2018-04-07T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T20:35:02","slug":"april-showers-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/14\/april-showers-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"April Showers Bring &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April showers won&#8217;t bring May flowers if it doesn&#8217;t stop snowing. \u00a0Yesterday I received the annual bill from the snow plow guy, but I fear he may have sent it too soon. \u00a0No matter. \u00a0When the icy mornings are as beautiful as they were today, then I&#8217;m ok with an extended winter.<\/p>\n<p>Thayer Lake&#8217;s water level is higher than I&#8217;ve ever seen it, which is good news. \u00a0It&#8217;s beginning to go over the top of my dock, and has submerged half of the neighbor&#8217;s dock that was completely on dry land last year. \u00a0Enzo and I took a long walk around the shoreline and the woods, enjoying the quiet stillness of the chilly morning. \u00a0The pictures below describe the mood better than I can.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2143 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03878.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03878-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03878-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03878-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03878-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2144'>\n\t\t\t\tEnzo enjoys his walks on the dock\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03880.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03880-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03880-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03880-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03880-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2145'>\n\t\t\t\tWater was a foot below the dock last year, but is overtaking the dock now\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03883.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03883-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03883-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03883-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03883-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2146'>\n\t\t\t\tNeighbor&#8217;s dock is half submerged now, but was totally on dry land last autumn\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03884.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03884-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03884-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03884-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03884-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2147'>\n\t\t\t\tWater beginning to cover our dock\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03908.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03908-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03908-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03908-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03908-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2148'>\n\t\t\t\tThis boat at the beach was on dry land 5 months ago\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03918.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03918-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03918-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03918-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03918-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2149'>\n\t\t\t\tEnzo on the dock at the beach\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03927.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03927-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03927-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03927-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03927-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2150'>\n\t\t\t\tDeer tracks inside my footprints from the previous day.  It was like this for 20 feet.  I wonder why a deer would step inside my tracks?\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03929.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03929-200x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-2151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03929-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03929-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forths.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/rsDSC03929-220x220.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-2151'>\n\t\t\t\tI found the concentric rings of a frozen puddle to be interesting\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April showers won&#8217;t bring May flowers if it doesn&#8217;t stop snowing. \u00a0Yesterday I received the annual bill from the snow plow guy, but I fear he may have sent it &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upnorth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4251,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/4251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}