{"id":11257,"date":"2025-11-03T18:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11257"},"modified":"2025-11-03T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T23:21:38","slug":"wow-the-sun-finally-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/11\/03\/wow-the-sun-finally-came-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow! The sun finally came out."},"content":{"rendered":"

Boy are we in need of some sunshine about now. Yesterday it was cloudy, misty, and very windy so we didn’t venture out too much. I seeded out several squash and organized some of our messy seed bins. Meanwhile, Will took the tractor out to pick up a big load of wood from our friend Matt’s clearing. It’s a shame to have such great wood just lay around and rot. Or, worse yet, get shoved into a pile and burned up.<\/p>\n

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This is the last of the tomato sauce, salsa, and celery, waiting to go down into the basement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I got the last of the Cowboy Candy syrup canned up. Now I have lots of syrup so I can make a big bunch of Gaucho relish from the Sugar Rush Peach peppers. We sure eat a lot of that, in recipes from meatloaf to baked chicken. It’s not hot at all, as the seeds are taken out of the Sugar Rush Peach peppers, leaving just the fruity flavor and some spice from the jalape\u00f1os. Perfect!<\/p>\n

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Cowboy Candy syrup and a few jars of Cowboy Candy, all set to box up for a trip downstairs to the pantry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I had four peony roots I’d ordered this spring plus several bags of fancy double daffodils and three bags of grape hyacinths and crocus I needed to get planted before the ground freezes. So, today, with the sun out and it being fairly warm, I tilled up a chunk along the driveway that’d never had a flower bed before, with the baby Kubota, and planted the peonies. Then I took some daffodils and small bulbs down to my late husband, Bob’s, garden in the woods. The digging was hard down there, with tree roots and hard soil. But I managed to get several handfuls planted. Yes, even after all these years, I still miss Bob, even though I’m now happily married to Will.<\/p>\n

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I can’t wait to see our new peonies to join our current display.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have several daffodils and many smaller bulbs left to plant around the peonies in the new flower bed. After planting, I’ll mulch with wood chips to help them settle in over winter. Hopefully, come spring, we’ll see a new pop of color where there never before was any.<\/p>\n

I was doing a little shopping yesterday to fill in a few “corners” of our long-term storage pantry. Spices, mayonnaise, and another big bag of rice. No, we won’t need it. But perhaps someone else may. It’ll stay good for years, just waiting to be a lifesaver. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boy are we in need of some sunshine about now. Yesterday it was cloudy, misty, and very windy so we didn’t venture out too much. I seeded out several squash and organized some of our messy seed bins. Meanwhile, Will took the tractor out to pick up a big load of wood from our friend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257"}],"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=11257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11261,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11257\/revisions\/11261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}