{"id":10568,"date":"2024-08-26T18:27:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10568"},"modified":"2024-08-26T18:27:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T22:27:22","slug":"with-several-dry-days-were-charging-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/26\/with-several-dry-days-were-charging-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"With several dry days, we’re charging ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will finished up the hay he was working on yesterday, getting it all baled up nicely. With no rain on it! Yea! Right now, he’s waiting for a bearing for the haybine. He was working on it and found a bearing was totally gone in the reel. So, he ordered a bearing today, which won’t arrive for a few days. Luckily, there’s lots more to do around here. Today, he’s working on refilling our batteries in the battery bank, in the basement. He’s been putting it off because he was so busy with the hay. Today it’s hot and muggy. A perfect day to work in the cool basement!<\/p>\n

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Aren’t these Magpie beans nice? One of our favorites, both as a snap and dry bean.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I went out to check our tomatoes and beans in the Wolf Garden. Holy cow, I have more Dragon Tongue beans to pick and can up! I’ve got to get the last batch carried down to the basement, but I’ll admit I put it off as my knees are still pretty sore, especially when doing stairs. The other beans out there are great, for the most part. I love those Magpie bush beans as they’re so nice and refined as green beans and make pretty, and tasty, dry beans too. The melons are also looking good. The Early Polish watermelons and Wapsi Wonder muskmelons are getting large, as our Leelanau Sweetglo watermelons and Oka muskmelons in the Main Garden. I’ve got an Oka that must weigh five pounds already. Wow! The peppers are doing well too. I had one Ozark Sweet Snack sweet pepper in the hoop house that had so many fat peppers on it that it broke off at the base. I got busy and staked the others, you bet.<\/p>\n

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Our melons, like these Early Polish, are doing very well, despite the crazy weather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This spring, I tossed some old flower seed around, here and there and am amazed at the beauty it’s added to some “plain” spots. There are some big, bright Gloriosa Daisies over at David and Elizabeth’s house that are amazing! I also have some beautiful daylilies blooming right now. Mom’s favorite was Big Kiss, and I planted one in her honor, in front of the greenhouse. Now, it’s in full bloom and gorgeous. I hope Mom’s looking down on it and smiling.<\/p>\n

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These big Gloriosa Daisies sure brighten up the edge of the woods!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mom’s favorite daylily, Big Kiss, is now planted in front of our greenhouse.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Will finished up the hay he was working on yesterday, getting it all baled up nicely. With no rain on it! Yea! Right now, he’s waiting for a bearing for the haybine. He was working on it and found a bearing was totally gone in the reel. So, he ordered a bearing today, which won’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568"}],"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=10568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10573,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10568\/revisions\/10573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}