{"id":2600,"date":"2026-02-18T20:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2026-02-18T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:09:21","slug":"a-dark-and-dreary-winter-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/a-dark-and-dreary-winter-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A dark and dreary winter day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started the day with a walk to the local Tim Hortons and as I stepped out of the door, the ice pellets began to strike my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like a barrage of tiny stones they beat down but I was undeterred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"2160\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 3840 \/ 2160;\" width=\"3840\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260218_153323877.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I took a short video to show my friends<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I performed my morning meetings from the Tim Hortons and was soon told that they would be closing for water maintenance, and that we all should leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I agreed to pack up my things and go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"2160\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 3840 \/ 2160;\" width=\"3840\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/PXL_20260218_153437803.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is a video of the fluffy snow which replaced the ice pellets for a while<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way back, the ice had given way to fluffy snow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the morning work was done, I made arrangements to meet up with Victoria, and we went out for lunch and a few errands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall I was happy to arrive home and change into dry pants as the cuffs of mine had been soaked by the slush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I used the rest of the cozy indoor afternoon to optimize the website I was working on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s what an average work from home day looks like for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How was your snow day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started the day with a walk to the local Tim Hortons and as I stepped out of the door, the ice pellets began to strike my face. Like a barrage of tiny stones they beat down but I was undeterred. I performed my morning meetings from the Tim Hortons and was soon told that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[318,237,446],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-musings","tag-snow","tag-vlog","tag-wfh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2604,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lilithebowman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}