{"id":10417,"date":"2024-05-22T17:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10417"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:01:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T21:01:10","slug":"rain-rain-go-away-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/22\/rain-rain-go-away-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, go away"},"content":{"rendered":"

We really needed rain. But gee, it’d be nice if it would stop for a day or two! I’ve got lots of stuff to plant. Not garden veggies but flowers right now. I bought 25 assorted Hosta roots from Gilbert H. Wild & Son, cheap. They came, bagged up. Nice roots but very small. They’ll like the rain to get started but I’m running out with five at a time, in-between rains. Ugh! My feet are wet. I’m going to have to switch to boots, I guess. The good news is my knees are slowly getting much better. Whew, I was getting nervous when they seemed to stay very sore all the time. And <\/em>June planting is coming up on us like a freight train!<\/p>\n

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Our lilacs are starting to bloom, despite the heavy rains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The creeks around here (and rivers) are in flood stage. Our little beaver pond is overflowing and getting larger by the day. That’s not a bad thing though, as we love watching the wildlife on it. Otters, beavers, muskrats, ducks, geese, swans, and pelicans are all fun to watch. Our mama and papa geese have moved their brood onto the big beaver pond for the summer and another pair is now claiming the small beaver pond in front of the house. I sure hope they nest.<\/p>\n

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Our little beaver pond is overflowing, which is good for the wildlife.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have all of the melons, squash, and pumpkins out on the back deck, so they get rain and sunshine. But lately, we’ve had about three inches of rain, and I have to go out and dump out the excess water from all the flats every morning, so they don’t drown. Yep, I’m hoping for the sun they say is coming out tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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My poor little cups of melon, squash, and pumpkin seedlings need help getting rid of excess water every morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We really needed rain. But gee, it’d be nice if it would stop for a day or two! I’ve got lots of stuff to plant. Not garden veggies but flowers right now. I bought 25 assorted Hosta roots from Gilbert H. Wild & Son, cheap. They came, bagged up. Nice roots but very small. They’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10420,"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\/10417"}],"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=10417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10421,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10417\/revisions\/10421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}