{"id":10878,"date":"2025-03-27T15:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T19:44:11","slug":"our-first-robin-arrived-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/03\/27\/our-first-robin-arrived-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first robin arrived today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was so jealous of my sisters, Sue and Deb. Both had flocks of robins arriving in their yards. Us? Nada. But today our first one arrived, and we were so thrilled! Will was looking out in the backyard, and he yelled to me “Come look! Is that a robin?” Of course, I jumped up and took a look. Yep, a nice male robin was hopping through the grass. Spring is here! Well, kind of spring. We’ve lived here long enough to not believe spring has really come. We’ll get more snow. In fact, freezing rain and snow are scheduled for this weekend. Oh great\u2026 But our first Pussy Willows are starting to open slowly, and the snow is going away at 50 degrees for a couple of days. At least we’re able to start doing spring things. This afternoon, after I get another flat of tomatoes planted, I’m going out on the riding mower and mowing our flower beds in preparation to mulching them before the tulips and daffodils start popping up. They’ll come soon now.<\/p>\n

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Our first robin of the spring!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our chickens are starting to lay like crazy. I got 7 eggs yesterday from 9 hens. Not bad when some are 10 years old!<\/p>\n

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We’re so happy to have chickens \u2014 at the price of eggs, especially!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, Will and I went to Nett Lake and taught a seed starting\/gardening class. We only do local ones now, and only a few. We’re getting older and traveling is not so much fun. But we do love helping folks get the hang of planting seeds, gardening, and putting up food.<\/p>\n

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This was the sunset yesterday. So stunning!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will is starting to caulk up some cracks in the joints between the greenhouse windows and walls in preparation for cleaning it out and getting ready to fire up the wall heater on April 1st. I’ll be transplanting our peppers then and will need the extra room. For now, I’m planting flats of tomatoes. Lots of them! I can’t wait until we get out in the gardens to start cleaning them up prior to planting. Come on spring! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was so jealous of my sisters, Sue and Deb. Both had flocks of robins arriving in their yards. Us? Nada. But today our first one arrived, and we were so thrilled! Will was looking out in the backyard, and he yelled to me “Come look! Is that a robin?” Of course, I jumped up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878"}],"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=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10883,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/10883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}