{"id":10384,"date":"2024-04-30T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10384"},"modified":"2024-04-30T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:47:19","slug":"in-between-rains-were-still-able-to-work-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/04\/30\/in-between-rains-were-still-able-to-work-outside\/","title":{"rendered":"In between rains, we’re still able to work outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re very glad to have been getting rain, as we’d been in drought all winter. I’m hoping this means our drought is done with, so we’ll have a “normal” summer. While we’ve sure dealt with droughts in the past, it’s a lot easier for everyone if we don’t get another one.<\/p>\n

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Hondo checking out the new fence line.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the deer have been busily walking into the front yard and eating the daylilies as fast as they come up, we’re in the get-that-fence-up mode, big time. Today, Will hauled a very heavy 100-foot roll of 6-foot welded wire fence up and unrolled it down the path, toward the barn. He had all of the 8-foot T-posts pounded in, even where there had been some frost, still in the ground. So, this afternoon, we stood the wire up, temporarily fastening it to the tops of a few posts. Then he began the slow process of stretching the wire snug and fastening it to the posts with zip ties. (I’ll go back later and wire the fence on, but when it’s “in progress” it’s a whole lot easier to use zip ties, which can easily be snipped off when necessary.<\/p>\n

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Will stepping off the distance between the fence posts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The fence is up, temporarily in place while we start to stretch it and fasten it to the posts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Just before the rain began, I scattered a bunch of frost-hardy wildflower seeds around among the trees. Then I got an order from Roots & Rhizomes, including several Siberian irises and a Lenten Rose. These, I planted here and there in the new front yard, figuring we’d have the deer fence up before the plants came up. They don’t usually eat any species of iris anyway. Usually.<\/p>\n

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I bought some 8-foot gothic fence panels to attach to the 6-foot-high fence, just to look nice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Although deer don’t always eat squills, I’m glad to be getting them behind the fence.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This weekend, I’ll be starting to plant my cabbage family seeds in the house as well as some melon, squash, and pumpkin seeds. They only want to be about 5-6 weeks of age when planted outside and the end of the first week in June is roaring up on us, faster than we’d like to think. Everything in the greenhouse is fantastic, but the greenhouse is nearly full. Gee, and I was going to plant less this year. Ha, ha, ha! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re very glad to have been getting rain, as we’d been in drought all winter. I’m hoping this means our drought is done with, so we’ll have a “normal” summer. While we’ve sure dealt with droughts in the past, it’s a lot easier for everyone if we don’t get another one. As the deer have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384"}],"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=10384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10390,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10384\/revisions\/10390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}