{"id":10372,"date":"2024-04-22T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10372"},"modified":"2024-04-22T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T20:51:25","slug":"were-having-spring-like-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/04\/22\/were-having-spring-like-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re having spring-like weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we’re making very good use of it! After our collapsed pallet fence around the front yard had been removed, Will got busy cleaning out the part of the woods next to it that we plan on including in our fenced front yard. After cutting down a few dead and in-the-way trees, he used our little Kubota to shove the leftover branches into piles, after cutting the trunks into firewood for next year. Then he got Old Trusty, our big bulldozer fired up and shoved the gigantic piles of branches down into our burn pile so they could dry and safely burn next year when there’s snow on the ground. (We’re very careful of fires around here!) When it’s all clean, we are going to fence it with 6-foot fence to keep out the deer. Then I’ll plant some hostas in the shady parts and wildflowers elsewhere. I think it’s going to be really nice.<\/p>\n

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Will cleaning up the leftover tree branches from our new part of the front yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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he little Kubota made easy work of shoving branch piles out of the yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of our chickens had been escaping from the orchard, which is their run. I wouldn’t mind but those darned girls just have to dig big holes in my flower beds for insects and just for the heck of it, I think. And I mean holes<\/em>! Some are a foot deep. Not good for the flowers! Today, I went out and examined the fence. Sure enough, there were a couple of spots where they could get through the fence. One was a bagged spot in the chain link fence next to the coop and another was where the chicken wire next to the stock panels had sagged down to the ground. I fixed both spots and re-enforced a couple other suspicious places. Now, we’ll see if they get out again. I’m doubting it. We will have to herd them in tonight. The wolves have been howling fairly close to the buildings and we don’t want to tempt them with a chicken dinner.<\/p>\n

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With the new part of the front yard cleaned up, we’re going to fence it so I can safely plant flowers without deer invasions.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

And we’re making very good use of it! After our collapsed pallet fence around the front yard had been removed, Will got busy cleaning out the part of the woods next to it that we plan on including in our fenced front yard. After cutting down a few dead and in-the-way trees, he used our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372"}],"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=10372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10376,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10372\/revisions\/10376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}