{"id":10406,"date":"2024-05-16T12:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2024-05-16T12:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T16:27:49","slug":"you-know-its-spring-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/16\/you-know-its-spring-when\/","title":{"rendered":"You know it’s spring when\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

All of a sudden, we had our first calf of the year born. She’s a beautiful red heifer we named Sassy. We used to have our calves earlier in the year so by fall they would be nice and big. The only trouble is sometimes we’d have a cow have a calf during a late spring blizzard or when the temperature dove down to the below zero mark unexpectedly. Now, we plan to have our calves when the weather’s settled and they can go out onto nice green grass right away. We do like them to give birth in the cow yard where they are protected by our horses and mule. So far, we haven’t had a single wolf attack on our cattle that we know of in more than 18 years. We hear the wolves singing very often, and up close to the buildings too. But taking care not to make our stock too tempting seems to be working.<\/p>\n

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Meet our first calf of the year, cute little Sassy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been busy getting all of the frost hardy plants I bought at Byrns Greenhouse and those Bill and my sister, Deb sent up planted in the new part of the front yard. It’s going to rain tomorrow so I wanted to get them right in the ground beforehand. The fish are now “swimming” in the front flower bed after spending the winter in the greenhouse safe from the snowplow. The daffodils they are swimming in are blooming like mad and I think it looks so pretty.<\/p>\n

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Spring is here when the fish “swim” in the flower beds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another sign of spring around here is when the mama Killdeers are having their nests. I’d noticed one Killdeer down by the barn acting like she had a nest. She’d fly up then run around, close, doing her wounded bird imitation. Today, I took a good look around and found her nest with four eggs in it. Now we know where it is, we’ll be very careful not to bother or step on it. The chicks are so cute when they hatch, looking like tiny versions of adults. I can’t wait!<\/p>\n

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See the Killdeer mama’s little nest? It’s hard to spot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

All of a sudden, we had our first calf of the year born. She’s a beautiful red heifer we named Sassy. We used to have our calves earlier in the year so by fall they would be nice and big. The only trouble is sometimes we’d have a cow have a calf during a late […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406"}],"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=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10410,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions\/10410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}