{"id":6670,"date":"2015-12-25T15:15:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2015-12-25T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T19:17:12","slug":"christmas-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2015\/12\/christmas-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_6671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6671\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124641.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Ontario\" width=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124641.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124641-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124641-299x168.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124641-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124641-1023x575.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Ontario<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nChristmas Eve 2015.  A warm.. 16 C day with a good wind blowing in from the southwest.  Unheard of, blew away previous records.<br \/>\nWe took the opportunity after getting off work around noon, to go down to the lake for a picnic lunch, solar observing and duck observing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6672\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124654.jpg\" alt=\"Lake Ontario ducks\" width=\"400\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-6672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124654.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124654-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124654-299x168.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124654-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_124654-1023x575.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Ontario ducks<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once we got home it was still sunny enough to haul out the hydrogen alpha telescope and look at the sun some more.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6673\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6673\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135040.jpg\" alt=\"Kim observing the Sun in HA\" width=\"400\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-6673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135040.jpg 447w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135040-95x150.jpg 95w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135040-189x299.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 447px) 100vw, 447px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kim observing the Sun in HA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>We are starting to get a little worried about the fall planted garlic crop.  It is suppose to be frozen solid from now until the spring&#8230; and that is not happening.  We are expecting little green plants to be poking up through the barley straw mulch any time now!<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6674\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135115.jpg\" alt=\"over 500 garlic plants with over 75 types\" width=\"400\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-6674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135115.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135115-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135115-299x168.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135115-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_135115-1023x575.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">over 500 garlic plants with over 75 types<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>In addition to lettuce still growing in the cold frame, we managed to find some fresh catnip still growing around the house.<br \/>\nDora was very happy!<figure id=\"attachment_6675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6675\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_144320.jpg\" alt=\"Fresh catnip\" width=\"400\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-6675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_144320.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_144320-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_144320-299x168.jpg 299w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_144320-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/20151224_144320-1023x575.jpg 1023w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh catnip<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Eve 2015. A warm.. 16 C day with a good wind blowing in from the southwest. Unheard of, blew away previous records. We took the opportunity after getting off work around noon, to go down to the lake for a picnic lunch, solar observing and duck observing. Once we got home it was still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,27,3,5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-cats","category-gardening","category-garlic","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6670\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}