Mark and I are looking forward to the next heavy rain storm, since we don’t dare hope for a multi-day thaw. And until one or the other happens here in New York City, we won’t be able to use our back door (which opens out) or get into our yard.<\/p>\n
My two-verse limerick explains all: <\/p>\n
Who Needs A Door, Anyway?
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n
Can’t exit our house from the back,
\nCuz the door’s blocked by snowdrifts, alack!
\nWe would shovel it free
\nIf we could, but you see
\nWe’ve no route to that snow we can track.<\/p>\n
For the trail to that door’s through the yard. Mark and I are looking forward to the next heavy rain storm, since we don’t dare hope for a multi-day thaw. And until one or the other happens here in New York City, we won’t be able to use our back door (which opens out) or get into our yard. My two-verse limerick explains all: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,46,42,73,20,58,59],"tags":[708,284,433,504,326,716,1054,1659,4947,1056],"class_list":["post-3988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chores-humor","category-house-home-humor","category-limericks","category-new-york-limericks","category-outdoors-humor","category-seasons-humor","category-weather-humor","tag-backyard","tag-chores","tag-house-home","tag-new-york-city-verse","tag-outdoors","tag-seasonal-verse","tag-shoveling-snow","tag-snow-poetry","tag-weather-humor","tag-winter-limerick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4005,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/4005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnd clearing that path’s more than hard.
\nFor the yard gate is blocked
\nFrom inside, as if locked
\nBy still more<\/strong> snow. Our entry is barred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"