{"product_id":"vernons-hand-blown-rain-gauge","title":"Vernon's Hand-Blown Rain Gauge","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\n@import url(\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Poppins:wght@400;500;600;700;800\u0026display=swap\");\n.prod-wrapper {\n    font-family: 'Poppins', -apple-system, sans-serif;\n    max-width: 920px;\n    margin: 0 auto;\n    padding: 0;\n    color: #16302f;\n    line-height: 1.6;\n    background: #f4fafd;\n}\n\n.prod-wrapper * {\n    box-sizing: border-box;\n}\n\n.prod-hero {\n    text-align: center;\n    padding: 44px 24px 34px;\n    background: linear-gradient(165deg, #f0faff 0%, #c9e8f8 55%, #a9daf2 100%);\n    border-radius: 12px;\n    margin-bottom: 34px;\n}\n\n.prod-hero-icon {\n    font-size: 44px;\n    margin-bottom: 8px;\n}\n\n.prod-hero h2 {\n    font-size: 28px;\n    font-weight: 700;\n    margin: 8px 0 12px;\n    color: #123243;\n    line-height: 1.25;\n}\n\n.prod-hero-sub {\n    font-size: 16px;\n    color: #2f5c72;\n    max-width: 580px;\n    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td:first-child {\n    font-weight: 600;\n    color: #6b8a88;\n    width: 38%;\n    background: #f4fafd;\n}\n\n.prod-specs-table td:last-child {\n    color: #16302f;\n}\n\n@media (max-width: 600px) {\n    .prod-includes-grid {\n        grid-template-columns: 1fr 1fr;\n    }\n\n    .prod-features-grid {\n        grid-template-columns: 1fr;\n    }\n\n    .prod-hero h2 {\n        font-size: 22px;\n    }\n\n    .prod-story, .prod-guarantee {\n        margin-left: 16px;\n        margin-right: 16px;\n    }\n\n    .prod-garden-item {\n        padding: 18px 16px;\n        gap: 12px;\n    }\n}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"prod-wrapper\"\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-hero\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"prod-hero-icon\"\u003e🌧️\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003ch2\u003eHand-Blown in Milton, West Virginia\u003c\/h2\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"prod-hero-sub\"\u003eVernon Kesler, 69. Glassblower and self-taught smith. He blows the glass and forges the iron for every one of these in the shed behind his house — a shed that has just been condemned. These are the last ones he’ll make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden\"\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003eWhat It Does for Your Garden\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-sub\"\u003eFour things change the morning after you put one in the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-items\"\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-emoji\"\u003e💧\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-title\"\u003eYou stop guessing whether to water\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-desc\"\u003e“It rained pretty good last night” is usually a lot less than it felt like. One glance in the morning tells you whether to drag the hose out or leave the garden alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-emoji\"\u003e🌱\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-title\"\u003eYou stop drowning the things you love most\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-desc\"\u003eMore garden plants die of too much water than too little — usually at the hands of the gardener who waters on schedule no matter what the sky did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-emoji\"\u003e🏡\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-title\"\u003eIt measures your yard, not a grid miles away\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-desc\"\u003eThe number on your phone is estimated across hundreds of properties. Everyone who gardens has watched a storm soak the neighbour and skip them entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-item\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-garden-emoji\"\u003e🌡️\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-title\"\u003eIt warns you before a frost takes the tomatoes\u003c\/p\u003e\n                    \u003cp class=\"prod-garden-desc\"\u003eThe dial reads the air out where the plants actually are — not on the shaded house wall where most outdoor thermometers hang and read wrong all summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-story\"\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"prod-story-quote\"\u003e“A garden won’t tell you what it needs. It just quietly gets too much water or too little, and by the time you can see it, you’ve already lost something. All this does is take the guessing out of the morning. Forty years working glass, and it’s the most useful thing I ever made.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"prod-story-author\"\u003e— Vernon Kesler, Milton, West Virginia\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-features\"\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003eMade by Hand, From the Glass to the Dragonfly\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"prod-features-sub\"\u003eFifty years at a furnace teaches a man things a factory line never will. Vernon blows the glass, forges the iron and shapes the ornaments himself — every piece of it. The sealed thermometer dial is the one component he buys in, and he tells you so plainly rather than letting you find out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"prod-features-grid\"\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-icon\"\u003e🔥\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-title\"\u003eBlown at His Own Furnace\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cp class=\"prod-feature-desc\"\u003eGathered on the pipe and shaped by hand, one tube at a time, then left in the annealer overnight so the stress comes out of the glass. Skipping that step is what makes cheap glass split at the first hard freeze. Vernon has never skipped it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-icon\"\u003e✋️️\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-title\"\u003eForged, Not Cast\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cp class=\"prod-feature-desc\"\u003eBar stock heated in the forge, bent, hammered and drawn out to a point for the stake. The scroll under the songbird is curled by eye rather than around a jig — the mark of someone who has done it long enough not to need one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-icon\"\u003e🪶\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-title\"\u003eColour Pulled From the Fire\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cp class=\"prod-feature-desc\"\u003eThe dragonfly’s blues and greens are not paint. They are temper colours — the shades steel passes through as it heats. Vernon draws each wing out at the exact moment it turns. Judging that by eye takes years, and no two come out the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-card\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-icon\"\u003e🔍\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-feature-title\"\u003eStill Readable in Ten Years\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cp class=\"prod-feature-desc\"\u003eA moulded plastic tube yellows in sunlight and clouds from the inside — by its third summer you are squinting at a number you cannot really see. Properly annealed glass does none of that. It is the same tube in a decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-includes\"\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003eWhat’s in the Box\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"prod-includes-grid\"\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-tile\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-icon\"\u003e☔️\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-name\"\u003eGlass Tube\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-desc\"\u003eBlown and marked one at a time, scale in cm\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-tile\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-icon\"\u003e🌿\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-name\"\u003eForged Frame \u0026amp; Stake\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-desc\"\u003ePush it straight into soil — no tools\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-tile\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-icon\"\u003e🌡️\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-name\"\u003eDial Thermometer\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-desc\"\u003e°F and °C, nothing to charge\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-tile\"\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-icon\"\u003e🐦\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-name\"\u003eSongbird \u0026amp; Dragonfly\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \u003cdiv class=\"prod-include-desc\"\u003eHand-forged, coloured in the fire\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-perfect\"\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003ePerfect For\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003cp class=\"prod-perfect-sub\"\u003eWhere these have ended up so far.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"prod-tag-list\"\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🌷 Flower Beds \u0026amp; Borders\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🥕 Vegetable Patches\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e💧 Knowing When to Water\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🎁 Gifts for Gardeners\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🏡 Porch \u0026amp; Patio\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🐦 Yards With Feeders\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🌦️ Weather Watchers\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🏵️ Retirement \u0026amp; Housewarming\u003c\/span\u003e\n            \u003cspan class=\"prod-tag\"\u003e🧵 Anyone Who Likes Handmade Things\u003c\/span\u003e\n        \u003c\/div\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-guarantee\"\u003e\n        \u003cdiv class=\"prod-guarantee-icon\"\u003e🤝\u003c\/div\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003e30-Day No-Questions Guarantee\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003cp\u003ePut it in the ground and live with it for a month. If it isn’t right, send it back — full refund, return shipping on us, nothing to fill in and nothing to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n    \u003cdiv class=\"prod-specs\"\u003e\n        \u003ch3\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n        \u003ctable class=\"prod-specs-table\"\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eTube\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHand-blown glass, annealed overnight\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eRainfall Scale\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eCentimetres, 0–17 cm, measured onto each individual tube (1 inch = 2.5 cm)\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eFrame \u0026amp; Stake\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHand-forged iron, matte black powder coat\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eOrnaments\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHand-forged songbird; dragonfly coloured by tempering heat, not paint\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eThermometer\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eSealed bimetal dial, factory-made, bench-checked and mounted by Vernon. °F and °C, no batteries.\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eDimensions\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003e27.5″ H × 8.2″ W (69.8 × 20.8 cm) including stake\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eWinter Care\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eLift the tube out of the ring before the first hard freeze\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHandmade Variation\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eWall thickness, rim and dragonfly colour vary slightly from piece to piece\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n            \u003ctr\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eOrigin\u003c\/td\u003e\n                \u003ctd\u003eHand-blown and forged in Milton, West Virginia — final run of [NUMBER]\u003c\/td\u003e\n            \u003c\/tr\u003e\n        \u003c\/table\u003e\n    \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n","brand":"CedarAndTin Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53288783937803,"sku":null,"price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/cedarandtinco.com\/products\/vernons-hand-blown-rain-gauge","provider":"CedarAndTin Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}