{"id":11613,"date":"2026-05-29T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11613"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:29:11","slug":"our-hot-weather-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/05\/29\/our-hot-weather-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Our hot weather continues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s miserable, trying to work when it’s in the 80’s, but we’re trying to make good use of this unseasonable weather. We have a chance of rain next Tuesday and Wednesday, and we’re also planning on how to water the Wolf Garden with David’s huge 500-gallon poly water tank and a pump to run sprinklers \u2014 just in case.<\/p>\n

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I just couldn’t resist this cute photo of Will, out on the edge of the Wolf Garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, we’re planting like crazy, as we can. I try to go out every morning early and either till where needed or plant more beans and corn. Yesterday, I set in 10 pounds of German Butterball potatoes and five more rows of beans. I’ve also got another patch of corn in and a row of San Felipe pumpkins from seed. Tomorrow, Will is going to set up five more 16-foot stock panel trellises for more pole beans while I take a run to get a perm, so my hair isn’t in my face all the time. No vanity here! It’s supposed to be 91 or higher tomorrow so I might not be planting again until evening. Thank God the bugs haven’t been bad. Our friend, Dara, had very bad black flies at her place, making wearing head nets necessary. So far, none are here. Yet. While I was coming back to the house, across the pond, I spotted a Bald Eagle sitting on a dead fir tree, along with two Magpies, hoping he’ll come up with something to eat.<\/p>\n

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I looked out on the edge of the pond and there was a Bald Eagle with two Magpies, sitting with him, also looking for dinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Saturday, we’re going down to Moose Lake to watch our grandson, Mason, graduate from high school. It seems like just a few months ago he was begging David to carry him around on his shoulders and show him how to skip rocks in the pond. Now he’s a member of the Air National Guard, even before graduation. Of course, Will joined the Marine Corps and went to Vietnam before he graduated. (Yes, he did get his diploma later.)<\/p>\n

Then, on Sunday, we’ll hit the garden hard, planting a whole lot of corn and squash too. I won’t be setting plants in the ground yet, even though they’re ready and we have no frost in the forecast. It’s too sunny and scorching. That’s pretty hard on newly transplanted veggies. I’m waiting till Tuesday afternoon, when the clouds are supposed to come in, being cloudy on Wednesday too. I hope.<\/p>\n

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All of our apples, along with cherries and plums, plus wild blueberries are in full flower now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re enjoying seeing spring pop up like crazy. Our daffodils are in full bloom, as well as our cherries and plums, not to mention the apples in the orchard. Even the wild blueberries are flowering like mad. With no frost, we should have an abundant fruit harvest. Unless the drought steps in. We’ll have to wait and see. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it’s miserable, trying to work when it’s in the 80’s, but we’re trying to make good use of this unseasonable weather. We have a chance of rain next Tuesday and Wednesday, and we’re also planning on how to water the Wolf Garden with David’s huge 500-gallon poly water tank and a pump to run […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613"}],"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=11613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11617,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11613\/revisions\/11617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}