{"id":10400,"date":"2024-05-13T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2024-05-13T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T21:23:11","slug":"mothers-day-has-come-and-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/13\/mothers-day-has-come-and-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day has come and gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now, we’re back to work. But yesterday was an awesome day. My sons, Bill and David, and their families plus my sister, Sue, joined us at our annual Mother’s Day foray to Byrns Greenhouse in Zim, Minnesota. For many years now, our family has made the trip to enjoy each other and buy lots of flowers for a good price, for our homes and gardens. As we’ve enlarged our front yard by more than double, I wanted to pick up a bunch of shade-loving plants to get a head start on growing out there. I’d already scattered wildflower seeds out there, which are starting to come up. I got some awesome hostas, bleeding heart, and impatiens for planting after frost danger is gone. My other sister, Deb, had sent along some potted seedling Lenten Roses she’d dug from her beds and Bill brought three big pots of Trillium from the edge of his woods where he had trillions of them. He’d brought up three plants a few years ago and all are doing well. Two are starting to bloom right now! After filling our vehicles with flowers, we had lunch at a local restaurant and came home to visit. A very nice day!<\/p>\n

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Here we are, lined up in front of the plants we bought on Mother’s Day. We sure had fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last Thursday, we had our onion planting party. Our friends, Dara and Sherri came and helped Will plant our trillion onion plants. It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day and all went well and very <\/em>fast! By lunch, we were done. I couldn’t do much more than run stakes and boxes back and forth. But I did manage to spread organic fertilizer and corn gluten meal to suppress weeds in the rows before they were planted. Now we’ll all have lots and lots of onions to eat fresh, store over winter, and dehydrate, plus use in lots of canning recipes. We went out on Saturday, after a nice rain, to check on them. They’re all standing up and nice and green. I’m so glad!<\/p>\n

We had our first asparagus meal on Saturday too. I was mowing the dried corn stalks in the Main Garden with the riding lawnmower and went to drive over the asparagus beds. The asparagus was already a foot tall! I zigged out of the bed really fast then went out to pick it for dinner. I got a nice basket full, and we ate every bite. It was so sweet we about drooled. (Well, maybe I did \u2014 just a bit\u2026)<\/p>\n

More good news. Will got the Oliver tractor, The Hulk, running again after having to pull the engine and lots more to get at the clutch. We were both so glad to see that diesel smoke come out of the pipe! Now, he’s on to the International with the broken off power takeoff shaft. That shouldn’t be such a bad job. We’re also busy tilling gardens, getting ready to plant in a few weeks. We can usually start planting about the first week in June. Hopefully we can get at it even sooner with the weather warming up earlier than usual. But we always are on the careful lookout for that sneaky spring frost!<\/p>\n

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We were tickled when the “Hulk” fired right up. Yea! One more tractor in service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Did any of you see the Northern Lights recently? We have been watching them as they put on quite a show the last few days. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get any photos, as I haven’t got a modern smartphone and haven’t learned to use my digital camera well enough. But I got a few photos from Bill so you can take a peek.<\/p>\n

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Bill took this awesome shot of the Northern Lights at his place. Bill’s photos make me wish I had a better iPhone or had learned to use my digital camera more productively.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Now, we’re back to work. But yesterday was an awesome day. My sons, Bill and David, and their families plus my sister, Sue, joined us at our annual Mother’s Day foray to Byrns Greenhouse in Zim, Minnesota. For many years now, our family has made the trip to enjoy each other and buy lots of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400"}],"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=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10404,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions\/10404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}