{"id":35,"date":"2017-03-01T04:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5265.temp.domains\/~brucewi2\/photos\/2017\/03\/01\/pretty-lights\/"},"modified":"2019-09-03T01:12:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T01:12:11","slug":"pretty-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/pretty-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A really bad hint: it is totally unrelated to these sparkling Hanuka candles.<\/div>\n

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Our record breaking 2+ month drought ended in a big way:<\/div>\n

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I ran the gravity fed creek fountains through a couple of freezing nights:<\/div>\n

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Resulting in some ice encased leaves and twigs:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Doggy tested out my new mini-Stonehenge benches. Those big flat rocks are at the limit of my one-man rock moving abilities:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Did some hiking in downtown Birmingham and found some pretty lights:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This pile of stuff is also about to become pretty lights:<\/div>\n

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It is a voice controlled back-light for our TV:<\/div>\n

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I have some video of it this video about voice controlled TV stuff:<\/div>\n
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You ever have a need for a large spider in your living room? Now we can say “Hey Google, show photos of spiders on\u2026<\/span>misterhouse.blogspot.com<\/a><\/a><\/div>\n
In forest news, this big downed tree is slowly slipping off of a rock and onto power pole guy-lines. I had built a trail under it, which I now walk through faster than I used to \ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n

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I also built a trail under this log, which somehow landed precariously onto another tree stump 10 feet up:<\/div>\n

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That mystery photo was a pretty paper thin log mushroom:<\/div>\n

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Pretty Lights Guesses as to what this is? A really bad hint: it is totally unrelated to these sparkling Hanuka candles. Our record breaking 2+ month drought ended in a big way: I ran the gravity fed creek fountains through a couple of freezing nights: Resulting in some ice encased leaves and twigs: Doggy tested…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3717,"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-35","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\/1USj2sVvCtBTrXxZkmOqDCA.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","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=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3733,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/3733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewinter.net\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}