{"id":10013,"date":"2023-07-25T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10013"},"modified":"2023-07-25T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T17:19:11","slug":"with-our-guest-back-home-were-playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/07\/25\/with-our-guest-back-home-were-playing-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"With our guest back home, we’re playing catch-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, when you have company of any kind, everything switches mode from “normal” to “guest.” And, when my daughter Monique, arrived, that’s just what happened. I drove her all over our wonderful northland, showing off some of our favorite spots, trying to catch a glimpse of a moose. That didn’t happen, but we spent 10 days in tourist mode. I’m sure she has lots to tell our grandkids now about all the nature she experienced. (She lives in an apartment in Ohio.)<\/p>\n

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Monique enjoyed seeing various lakes like this, the Kinney Mine Pit Lake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will tried valiantly to keep up with weeding in the gardens, but it’s a ten-guy job. He did great but the lamb’s quarter and pigweed are very tenacious. Luckily, our friends, Dara and Sherri are here today, helping out Will, who also has a head cold. I’m headed out in a few minutes to get some cultivating done of smaller weeds, that I don’t have to bend or sit to pull. The hoe will take care of them.<\/p>\n

Yesterday we were surprised to see a big flock of pelicans on our beaver pond. There were 25 of them! Holy cow. The resident Great Blue Heron was also surprised and didn’t know what to think about such a crowd. He eventually hopped up and moved off a little, trying to get a little personal space. Gotta run \u2014 the weeds are waiting!<\/p>\n

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When the big flock of pelicans crowded the heron, he flew off a few feet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, when you have company of any kind, everything switches mode from “normal” to “guest.” And, when my daughter Monique, arrived, that’s just what happened. I drove her all over our wonderful northland, showing off some of our favorite spots, trying to catch a glimpse of a moose. That didn’t happen, but we spent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10016,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10013\/revisions\/10016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}