{"id":10844,"date":"2025-03-03T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T20:44:07","slug":"were-above-40-degrees-f-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/03\/03\/were-above-40-degrees-f-today\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re above 40 degrees F today"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long cold spell, today’s sunny warmth is so very welcome! First, let me thank all of you for your lovely prayers and thoughts for us and Javid after his passing last week. It’s very hard, having him gone. You know, the empty spot where his wheelchair sat at family meals at holidays and visits, his shoes in the wheelchair. Yep, hard. I’ve spent the week contacting family and friends, making arrangements, etc. I’ve done it before with my late husband’s passing, and Mom and Dad. But it’s still difficult.<\/p>\n

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My Christmas amaryllis is blooming like crazy. It likes the sun too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re so blessed as we’ve had so many seed orders, we’re kept busy filling them and getting them mailed out. It helps take my mind off of Javid. Thank you all!<\/p>\n

On a happier note, our tom turkey is starting to strut. Boy, that’s a sure sign spring isn’t very far away, isn’t it? Our hens are laying, although not a lot. But enough that we don’t have to buy eggs, and I can give a few to our friend, Sherri, who doesn’t yet have chickens. Who would have thought we’d feel so grateful to have chickens?<\/p>\n

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I’ve moved the pepper flats from behind the wood stove’s heat to our little plastic greenhouse in a south-facing window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our peppers are coming up gangbusters! It’s only been a week, and most of them are up nicely with more coming right along. Great germination! I think it’s because I waited until the nighttime temperatures were up and the days were warmer too. That way they stayed nice and toasty all the time. Peppers germinate best at temperatures between 70 and 90 degrees F. If the seeds get too cool, often they either rot or take up to a month to pop up.<\/p>\n

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Our peppers are popping up like mad.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m going to plant a couple more new peppers folks have donated to us plus pansies and snapdragons. But the tomatoes will wait until the 3rd week of the month as in the past, ours have gotten too big because I planted them too early. It’s hard to have patience, especially on a warm, sunny day, isn’t it? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a long cold spell, today’s sunny warmth is so very welcome! First, let me thank all of you for your lovely prayers and thoughts for us and Javid after his passing last week. It’s very hard, having him gone. You know, the empty spot where his wheelchair sat at family meals at holidays and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844"}],"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=10844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10848,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10844\/revisions\/10848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}