{"id":1802,"date":"2011-11-07T16:10:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2011-11-07T16:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T21:10:39","slug":"were-trying-to-crowd-a-lot-of-odd-jobs-into-what-little-fall-we-have-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/11\/07\/were-trying-to-crowd-a-lot-of-odd-jobs-into-what-little-fall-we-have-left\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re trying to crowd a lot of odd jobs into what little Fall we have left"},"content":{"rendered":"

It always seems that this time of year, we have so many jobs we want to get done “before winter!” We keep hacking away at them, but it’s getting colder and colder every day. This last few days, we’ve been busy putting the garden to bed and hauling composted horse manure onto our back yard. I got the garden all cleared up, then plowed it to turn in the thick reed canary grass mulch I’d put on the tomato, bean, and potato rows. Our tiller wouldn’t handle that thick a mulch and we wanted to get it underground to rot over winter. So I plowed it, then ran our raggedy old disc over it for half an hour. I’ve still got some work to do on it, but it looks pretty good now.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Will’s been hauling black, composted horse manure — by the dump truck load — from the pasture onto our back yard. Previously, it was very rough, steep, and rocky. Full of wild raspberry bushes and weeds, it was not a thing of beauty! He spent an afternoon, grading the old yard with Old Yeller, our trusty bulldozer. Yesterday, he finished hauling the black dirt-compost and got it all smoothed out nicely.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Not only are the big rocks buried deep, but we also have MORE back yard and it’s much flatter. Eventually, we’ll put in a nice goldfish pond and flower beds. But next spring, we’ll just seed it with grass and wil be able to keep it mowed and under control. Gradually, we’ll put in a retaining wall for our someday walk-out basement and we’ll add flowers, shrubs, and herbs here and there. For now, we’re tickled pink with the huge improvement! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It always seems that this time of year, we have so many jobs we want to get done “before winter!” We keep hacking away at them, but it’s getting colder and colder every day. This last few days, we’ve been busy putting the garden to bed and hauling composted horse manure onto our back yard. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802"}],"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=1802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}