{"id":710,"date":"2021-01-13T15:58:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T21:59:38","slug":"snow-ponies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/snow-ponies\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Ponies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 10, we had 3-4 inches of snow.\u00a0 At times it was fairly heavy.\u00a0 Ragtime and Tigger decided that snow wasn&#8217;t worth standing in the barn for, though they had come in for breakfast when it was still a mix of cold rain and sleet. But snow?\u00a0 The boys thought that being snow ponies instead of show ponies was a great idea.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t get the really good pictures because I just stood there watching before going to get the camera.\u00a0 This pic is after they&#8217;d trotted and loped around looking SO cute and decorative and were cooling off (!!).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-711 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-ponies-01-10-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-ponies-01-10-2021.jpg 450w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-ponies-01-10-2021-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-712\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-ponies-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-ponies-2.jpg 500w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-ponies-2-300x157.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Snow elsewhere, later, at just about max depth: top pic, front, lower pic, back, beginning to melt<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-frontyard-01-10-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-frontyard-01-10-2021.jpg 450w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-frontyard-01-10-2021-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-713\" src=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-backyard-01-20-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-backyard-01-20-2021.jpg 450w, http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Snow-backyard-01-20-2021-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last pic was taken later, when I could stand on the back step scraper-mat in sandals (cold but OK) after pushing the snow off the mat with a broom. \u00a0 My\u00a0 outside mud\/snow boots were in the utility room, which opens to the front of the house, and I couldn&#8217;t wear them inside w\/o really dirtying things.\u00a0 Horses and top pic were taken from the front porch.\u00a0 Today it&#8217;s sunny and not exactly warm but not exactly cold either.\u00a0 Ears &amp; hands get chilly in the breeze but otherwise OK.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, January 10, we had 3-4 inches of snow.\u00a0 At times it was fairly heavy.\u00a0 Ragtime and Tigger decided that snow wasn&#8217;t worth standing in the barn for, though they had come in for breakfast when it was still a mix of cold rain and sleet. But snow?\u00a0 The boys thought that being snow ponies <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/01\/13\/snow-ponies\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,16],"tags":[49,17],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horses","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-horses","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}