{"id":8196,"date":"2015-02-21T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougbittinger.com\/thoughts\/?p=8196"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"an-ice-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/an-ice-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"What an Ice Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

For several days it has been very cold: down to 2\u00b0 F. one morning.\u00a0 We’ve had an ice storm followed by sleet and snow.\u00a0 It\u2019s warming up now: around 30\u00b0 at the moment, and we are expecting a high in the upper 40s.\u00a0 All that packed snow on top of the ice that has been kind of crunchy and easy to walk on when in single digit temperatures is now getting wet and SLICK!<\/p>\n

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Works great when not icy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was just out playing with the dogs.\u00a0 As we came in I was coming up the dog ramp.\u00a0 I know it\u2019s slick from the ice I could not scrape off, so I was being careful to hook the tread on my boots over the cleats.\u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t enough: I slipped, feet went flying\u00a0and I went down, bounced off the ramp, slid between the wall and the ramp\u00a0and ended up in the snow underneath the ramp.\u00a0 Blondie rushed over and stuck her nose in my face, \u201cAre you Okay? You\u2019re not dead are you? Who will feed us if you\u2019re dead?\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately I fell on my head, not something fragile.\u00a0 I went in and Marie administered first aid.\u00a0 It was bleeding a lot, but tuned out to be just a small cut right next to my eye socket.\u00a0 I put pressure on it until it stopped bleeding and used ice to quell the swelling.\u00a0 Marie says I may end up with a black eye, and the whole side of my face feels like someone smacked me with a 2×12, but it could have been a whole lot worse.<\/p>\n

The ironic part is that Marie ordered me a pair of ice gripper things that attach to my boots to prevent just such a spill…they should arrive in the mail this afternoon. :-\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For several days it has been very cold: down to 2° F. one morning.  We’ve had an ice storm followed by sleet and snow.  It’s warming up now: around 30° at the moment, and we are expecting a high in the upper 40s.  All that packed snow on top of the ice that has been … Continue reading “What an Ice Surprise”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-8196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-adventures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19938,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions\/19938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}