{"id":116,"date":"2011-04-26T00:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2011\/04\/26\/8-foot-muenster-cheese\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T21:58:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:58:05","slug":"8-foot-muenster-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/8-foot-muenster-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"8 foot Muenster cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a couple of pretty snowfalls this month:<\/p>\n

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It melted fast.   Here the camera caught snow falling from the power line:<\/p>\n

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Our backyard is remarkably private.  This is one of the few places in town I found where you can see it, about 3 miles away.   You need a high res monitor, middle, 1\/3 from the left:<\/p>\n

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Power lines do have one nice feature (other than delivering power I suppose) \u2026 birds like them:<\/p>\n

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California Quail is pretty common all around Salt Lake:<\/p>\n

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This bird is admiring a jet landing at the SLC airport, upper right:<\/p>\n

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We setup a motion activated night camera to inventory our various nighttime visitors.   Helen posted a 2 minute picture video here:<\/p>\n

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The raccoon keeps stealing the cat food \u2026 he is insatiable!  We switched to daytime only cat food, to discourage hoards of midnight masked bandits.<\/p>\n

Aya came for a weekend visit:<\/p>\n

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She brought her friend Aria.  They made me delete the music video I took of their drum\/ukulele concert:<\/p>\n

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This is Helen\u2019s office \u2026 note the cactus garden \u2026 they are everywhere!<\/p>\n

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Aria only brought thin\/low shoes, so I gave her a tour of some nice snowbanks:<\/p>\n

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Se was happy to get back to dry land:<\/p>\n

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This morning the sunrise was really pretty on the Kennecott open pit copper mine across the valley (2002 Olympic Speed skating oval in the lower right):<\/p>\n

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In 100+ years, it (the mine, not the oval) has produced more copper than any other mine (over $1 billion a year of various metals), is also the deepest open pit mine in the world at 3\/4 mile deep. <\/p>\n

Here are a few more scenic photos from our backyard:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m having fun hiking up nearby trails.  I coaxed Helen up one last weekend:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll close with a challenge and a mystery photo.   The challenge is to beat this 8 foot Muenster cheese string (I\u2019m standing on the kitchen counter):<\/p>\n

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The mystery photo:<\/p>\n

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Bruce<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

Photo mystery:  <\/p>\n

Actually, I\u2019m not sure what it is either.  I found it in our backyard, rotated 90 degrees, hanging on a spider web.  My best guess is it was made by a dog loving, ice saw wielding, artistically gifted, ice sculpting spider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a couple of pretty snowfalls this month: It melted fast.   Here the camera caught snow falling from the power line: Our backyard is remarkably private.  This is one of the few places in town I found where you can see it, about 3 miles away.   You need a high res monitor, middle, 1\/3…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/DSCN1836_thumb.jpg?fit=353%2C266&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2897,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/2897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}