{"id":2375,"date":"2012-07-10T12:12:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2012-07-10T12:12:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T16:12:14","slug":"our-heat-continues-but-the-garden-loves-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/07\/10\/our-heat-continues-but-the-garden-loves-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Our heat continues but the garden loves it"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our intense heat spell is continuing so we spend afternoons sitting in our cool soaking tub in between working. It sure helps. The humidity has been a killer and the sweat just rolls off us when we’re outside. I’ll be very glad when it cools down some. We did get a thunderstorm yesterday and that helped cool it down temporarily, but along with the storm there was a lot of wind. We didn’t have any problems here but further north and east many trees went down and folks are without power. And many of them had just gotten it back on following the last big storm.<\/p>\n

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The day before yesterday Will and I were on our way back from town and ran into a severe hail storm. Hail the size of ping pong balls was bouncing on our car! Will found a driveway quick into the woods and drove the car off into the trees where we remained partially sheltered until the worst was over. Our poor Subaru suffered a few dents on the hood and roof but we were amazed that was all the damage! We expected the windshield to shatter any second. We were worried about our garden at home!<\/p>\n

Luckily, when we got home, it had rained but we had no hail there. Thank you, God! Our garden looks so nice right now with corn being “knee high by the Fourth of July.” Here, that’s sort of unheard of. Usually we laugh and say “ankle high by the Fourth of July” … if we’re lucky.<\/p>\n

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The hoop houses continue to be the stars of our garden. The melons in them have leaves the size of squash leaves! Wow, I can hardly wait to see how soon they set melons and ripen! Mmm, I can taste them now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our intense heat spell is continuing so we spend afternoons sitting in our cool soaking tub in between working. It sure helps. The humidity has been a killer and the sweat just rolls off us when we’re outside. I’ll be very glad when it cools down some. We did get a thunderstorm yesterday and that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375"}],"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=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}