{"id":11060,"date":"2025-07-09T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11060"},"modified":"2025-07-09T15:39:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T19:39:59","slug":"while-were-working-were-praying-steadily-for-the-folks-in-texas-and-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/07\/09\/while-were-working-were-praying-steadily-for-the-folks-in-texas-and-new-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"While we’re working, we’re praying steadily for the folks in Texas and New Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, we’re complaining about rain and weeds while those poor folks are grieving for lost and missing loved ones. It sure puts things into perspective, doesn’t it? My heart hurts for them so bad. We saw the power of flash floods when we lived in New Mexico. About half a mile from the house was a little creek. We often walked down to it so David could fish for sunfish in the pools. It was so small, you could jump across it. But one day it rained. Not by us, but a few miles away. Rained hard! Well, our peaceful little creek turned into a monster in just a few hours. We could hear it roar from the house. And, walking down to it, we saw it raging 10 feet over the normal banks, in huge, angry waves, carrying big trees downstream like so many matchsticks. Seeing that made me aware of the danger of building anywhere near a creek.<\/p>\n

Even here, in Northern Minnesota, flash floods do, occasionally happen. As you’ve noticed, our house is built on a big rise, high above our little creek. Not by accident, I assure you!<\/p>\n

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Now that we’ve got the peppers in the Sand Garden cleaned up, I’m going to get them mulched.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will has been busy mulching the tomatoes with old reed canary grass hay. (No seeds!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m getting ready to mulch the peppers in the Sand Garden, after getting them weeded. Will has been busy getting ready for haying. Today, he’s working on our spare haybine (the one that caught fire!), after getting the primary haybine all ready to go. As soon as the weather has settled down, rain-wise, he’ll be off haying nearly every day. I’ll be keeping on weeding and weeding and weeding.<\/p>\n

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Will’s working at getting our backup haybine ready for the field. It’s like having a spare tire if the other one breaks down.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had to laugh. A visiting family asked if we planted any flowers to attract pollinators to our gardens. Well, yes and no. Around every one of them are acres of clover, both medium red and alsike. The fragrance about knocks you down, it’s so sweet. The cows are up to their bellies in it. Yep, the pollinators sure love it too!<\/p>\n

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Our cows and the pollinators love all the clover and wildflowers in our pastures.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Yep, we’re complaining about rain and weeds while those poor folks are grieving for lost and missing loved ones. It sure puts things into perspective, doesn’t it? My heart hurts for them so bad. We saw the power of flash floods when we lived in New Mexico. About half a mile from the house was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,26,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060"}],"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=11060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11065,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11060\/revisions\/11065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}