{"id":10495,"date":"2024-07-10T17:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10495"},"modified":"2024-07-10T17:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T21:20:48","slug":"finally-two-days-without-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/07\/10\/finally-two-days-without-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally! Two days without rain."},"content":{"rendered":"

And boy have we been busy. Our friends, Heather, Sherri, and Dara came over yesterday and helped with weeding and mulch. Although they only come occasionally, their help is invaluable! We love them so much for being so selfless, as they also have gardens to tend. Will has been side-dressing some of our sweet corn with rotted manure. The corn is slow this year, due to all the torrential rains we’ve been having and can sure use the help.<\/p>\n

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For those of you who think we don’t have weeds. Thanks to Heather, Sherri, and Dara, we have less over time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When we went out to the Wolf Garden, there was our youngest calf, Sunny, with no other cattle around. Oh oh! I wondered if his mother was sick, if he’d gotten left behind or what? I took the golf cart down to look and the whole herd, minus Sunny, was lying in the shade, in the cow yard. I tried to shoo them off toward the Wolf pasture, but no dice. Later in the day, they left, heading out to pasture. I went to the North pasture, on the golf cart and started herding them toward the Wolf pasture and, hopefully, Sunny. It worked until I got stuck about half a mile from the house! Mud, of course. I went ahead, driving the cows ahead of me, wishing for a horse. Boy were the mosquitoes bad<\/em>! I mean clouds of them and me, with no bug spray. It was a long walk home after climbing through the fence. I was bug-bit, and my knees were screaming.<\/p>\n

Will came in with the tractor and we went back out to pull the golf cart out of the mud. Yep, there was Sunny, again with the herd. We were so glad! With bears, wolves, and mountain lions around, we hate to have a lone calf wandering around.<\/p>\n

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Pooped from a long, buggy walk, I came to the house to find Buffy, lying in the shade, enjoying herself.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My Angel Trumpet is in full bloom after taking the winter off in the house. It’s awesome! I bought four more this spring and they’re happily growing near “big sister.” They also, will take a winter vacation inside and, hopefully, they’ll bloom next spring.<\/p>\n

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One of the Angel’s Trumpet blooms. Gorgeous!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been hot and I’m watering in the two hoop houses, where some of our peppers are planted. We’ve already got peppers on them and also some of the ones out in the Sand Garden.<\/p>\n

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Although it’s rained nearly every day, I still have to water the hoop house peppers today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I can’t wait to make more Cowboy Candy! Yesterday, I made a chicken recipe we loved. I diced and fried two boneless chicken breasts along with two onions. Then I added a pint of salsa and a pint of sweet corn. Then I added chili powder to taste. While this was simmering and thickening a bit, I lightly fried eight corn tortillas. When they were done, I placed them on the bottom of the frying pan and poured the chicken salsa mix over it and topped that with grated cheddar cheese. Wow, it was good, especially when I added a tablespoon of Cowboy Candy and a good splash of the syrup. Yum! We eat so good around here! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And boy have we been busy. Our friends, Heather, Sherri, and Dara came over yesterday and helped with weeding and mulch. Although they only come occasionally, their help is invaluable! We love them so much for being so selfless, as they also have gardens to tend. Will has been side-dressing some of our sweet corn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495"}],"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=10495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10500,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10495\/revisions\/10500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}