{"id":10378,"date":"2024-04-25T12:11:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10378"},"modified":"2024-04-25T12:11:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T16:11:34","slug":"more-sun-more-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/04\/25\/more-sun-more-work\/","title":{"rendered":"More sun, more work!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a beautiful day today with lots of sun. I mentioned to Will that our front yard flower beds were getting shaded out by the trees next to them. As we’re already clearing out to enlarge our front yard, he decided he’d go ahead and cut down those trees, especially the big double poplar that was partially dead. After all, it could fall and smash our lilac bushes and even hit the house if a big wind came up. (Not to mention smashing the fence if it fell that way!) Unfortunately, the tree was leaning right toward the house and lilac bushes. He got a ladder, climbed up to the top and fastened a rope around the trunk. Then he hooked the other end to our trusty ATV and went back to cut on the tree. After cutting mostly through it, he went back and pulled hard with the ATV. Slowly at first, the tree started to lean toward the lawn. Then, as he pulled more, it crashed to the ground. Exactly where Will wanted it. Cool! Now, he’s out there, cutting up the trunks for firewood for next year and cutting the branches into movable pieces. Yea Will!<\/p>\n

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With the rope tight, Will is cutting the tree’s trunk so it will fall toward the grass, not the lilac bushes or fence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\u2026and down it comes, right where Will wanted it to fall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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hen the tree came down, Sarge decided to come sit with me.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, I’ve been fertilizing my flower beds with 10-10-10 to help them get growing nicely. I don’t use manure on them as it sometimes contains weed seeds, even though composted fairly well. I see the tulips are coming up, so we really need to get the fence up to keep those darned deer out. They love <\/em>tulips and my hostas too. Bad deer! I’ve been transplanting peppers daily and those in the greenhouse are really shooting up. I can’t believe the tomatoes! They really love the sun and warmth.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t the greenhouse plants awesome?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning, Will tilled most of the Sand Garden for the first time. I’m excited that the frost has gone so we can really get going in the gardens. We’ve got lots of stakes, tomato cages, and trellises to pull out before we can do much more tilling. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a beautiful day today with lots of sun. I mentioned to Will that our front yard flower beds were getting shaded out by the trees next to them. As we’re already clearing out to enlarge our front yard, he decided he’d go ahead and cut down those trees, especially the big double poplar that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378"}],"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=10378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10383,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10378\/revisions\/10383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}