{"id":10366,"date":"2024-04-15T18:15:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2024-04-15T18:15:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T22:15:34","slug":"you-know-its-spring-when-will-starts-working-on-tractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/04\/15\/you-know-its-spring-when-will-starts-working-on-tractors\/","title":{"rendered":"You know it’s spring when Will starts working on tractors"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had four out of five of our tractors broken down! That has to be some sort of record, doesn’t it? Will got the big International kind of fixed, putting a plug in the hole where the broken power takeoff shaft had been. At least he could then use the tractor to feed the cows without it spewing out hydraulic fluid. Then he got the Ford 660 started and running well. These were all fixed during cold weather. But the worst broken down tractors were our Olivers. One, we call the Hulk, has a throw-out bearing gone and the other, a hole in the block. Both require taking out the engine, which is a big job. Well, I looked out yesterday and saw my adorable husband out there, with tractor parts lying on the ground all around him, by the Oliver with the throw-out bearing gone. It was a nice, sunny day and he had even taken his shirt off. Wow, that was a shock. Lots of white Will out there! Today, he’s all set to pull the engine with the help of the front-end loader on the 660.<\/p>\n

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Sarge is busy, “helping” Will work on the tractor. He guards him from tigers, lions, and elephants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The sun was so hot that Will took off his shirt to work. Whoa! That’s a lot of white!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, I’m continuing transplanting and planting. While we were in town, I picked up some bags of various roots\/bulbs, such as peonies, cannas, begonias, etc. With such a short season, they must be started inside in order to get blooms earlier in the season. When just planted in the ground in June, they barely have time to flower then it freezes. The peppers are growing like mad, as are the tomatoes I’ve already transplanted. I still have to do the cherry tomatoes and more peppers, but I’m slowly getting there.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I’m still transplanting. Just look at these habaneros!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I’m also planting some flower bulbs and roots in the greenhouse to get a jump on summer blooming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Outside, my daylilies, tulips, daffodils, and other spring bulbs are starting to poke up through the ground. It feels so much more like spring! We’re supposed to get rain for a few days and that will be very nice. I’m hoping our drought has broken. Will heard the first frogs croaking in the beaver ponds last night. But I missed that. I’ll go out tonight to listen! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had four out of five of our tractors broken down! That has to be some sort of record, doesn’t it? Will got the big International kind of fixed, putting a plug in the hole where the broken power takeoff shaft had been. At least he could then use the tractor to feed the cows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366"}],"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=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10371,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/10371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}