{"id":11578,"date":"2026-05-09T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11578"},"modified":"2026-05-09T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T17:32:18","slug":"after-a-spell-of-snow-and-cold-its-warming-up-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/05\/09\/after-a-spell-of-snow-and-cold-its-warming-up-again\/","title":{"rendered":"After a spell of snow and cold, it’s warming up again"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had such cold weather lately, with the highs struggling to get above 40 degrees F. Yes, Will did go out and cut a bunch of firewood for next winter. I kept busy in the house, trying to get the laundry done and a multitude of dishes washed. That’s the one disadvantage of eating what you grow; you end up with a lot of dishes, pots and pans that need washing. No microwave dinners happen around here or frozen dinners to pop in the oven. It’s kind of funny. The guy at the dump says he misses seeing us as we only have a small bag of trash once every couple weeks, where most folks are regular dump visitors with big bags.<\/p>\n

I was excited as yesterday, our box of onion plants arrived from Dixondale Farms in Texas. Yes, I prefer to plant our onions from seed. But we are just too busy planting other crops to do that. Yes, I have planted onions from sets. But we like more variety in our onions than the plain Yellow Stuttgarter onions available at the stores. Fortunately, I had tilled up the Wolf Garden “onion area” again, so it’s ready to plant. Today we have our wonderful helpers, Mike, Dara, and Sherri here and Sherri said she wore her grubby pants just in case we were going to plant onions. Guess what we’re going to do after lunch?<\/p>\n

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Aren’t these onions great? We’ll get them planted soon!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Although we prefer to plant our onions from seed to get varieties we love and can’t get plants for, we love these from Dixondale Farms.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gas prices (and everything else!) have continued climbing and we’re wondering where it’ll all stop. If they keep going up, we’ll have to stop shipping our seed packages to customers every single day and switch to every other day as it’s a 30-mile trip, all total, to town and back. As we have a flat rate shipping price of $5 and most packages cost more than that to ship, we’ve got to cut corners somehow, without cutting service.<\/p>\n

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Spring’s been kind of late this year, but here are our first spring flowers. Yea!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our fox mom has moved her pups to the north of us, and we haven’t seen her since. Her pups were getting big and we think she’s afraid our dogs will find them outside the den and kill them. We do miss seeing her but are glad she’s farther away so she doesn’t think chicken dinner would be good. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had such cold weather lately, with the highs struggling to get above 40 degrees F. Yes, Will did go out and cut a bunch of firewood for next winter. I kept busy in the house, trying to get the laundry done and a multitude of dishes washed. That’s the one disadvantage of eating what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578"}],"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=11578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11582,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11578\/revisions\/11582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}