{"id":10423,"date":"2024-05-28T16:50:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10423"},"modified":"2024-05-28T16:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T20:50:47","slug":"yep-its-still-raining-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/05\/28\/yep-its-still-raining-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep, it’s still raining"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy oh boy do I wish this would stop for a while. We really want to get in the gardens to till, spread manure, and get ready to start planting \u2014 at least our cold weather crops like potatoes. But we’ve been having at least a couple of rains every day and the ground is totally saturated, as in squishy. Ugh! Fortunately, it’s good for the flowers. We’ve never had so nice a bloom on our lilacs and daffodils. All of the flowers in the beds are looking very good and I’m looking forward to seeing an abundance of blooms. I’ve got the new part of the front yard nearly all planted now and hauled out a couple of benches and chairs so when friends come, we can go out and sit amidst nature while we visit.<\/p>\n

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The rain is making our flowers really shine this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will’s been busy in our back yard. Two of our poor Evans Bali cherry trees were leaning away from the big trees to their east. And we knew the roots of those big trees were sucking up nutrients that the cherry trees needed. They produced so abundantly last year; we didn’t want anything to slow them down. So, he cut down those offending big trees. After limbing them, he stacks them on the bucket of the little Kubota and hauls them out to the firewood pile. Waste not, want not! He’s also started in on our next solar array, pouring cement into the tubes making the base, in between rains.<\/p>\n

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Will’s been busy trying to make our little cherry trees happy by removing the big trees that were shading them out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our new solar array will have six panels, charging our battery bank even faster.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had to take our car in today for repairs on the rear end, to the tune of about $2,500. Holy cow! Just when we kind of get caught up. Oh well, stuff happens, and that car doesn’t owe us anything. It’s got over 200,000 miles on it so far and not much for repairs up until now. We’ll have to garden until our blood pressure returns to normal.<\/p>\n

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I told Sarge we may have to cut down on his Milk Bones to pay for our car repair.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our little onion plants look terrific after all this rain. I think we’ll have bushels of them, come fall. Hooray! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy oh boy do I wish this would stop for a while. We really want to get in the gardens to till, spread manure, and get ready to start planting \u2014 at least our cold weather crops like potatoes. But we’ve been having at least a couple of rains every day and the ground is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423"}],"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=10423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10428,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10423\/revisions\/10428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}