{"id":3895,"date":"2014-04-01T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2014-04-01T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T19:34:55","slug":"our-snow-is-finally-starting-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/04\/01\/our-snow-is-finally-starting-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Our snow is finally starting to go"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Porch-roof\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Will trimmed off the log rafters from the new front porch roof yesterday and was going to pick up the sawn off ends of the two-inch boards he’d roofed the porch with. I knew they were headed for firewood, which we don’t need. All of a sudden, I pictured rustic planters! So I ask him to saw them to size (whatever worked) for me while I went to get the cordless drill. With a square bit installed I screwed together five nice heavy planters of various sizes, using three-inch deck screws. Once finished, I drilled a few holes in the bottoms for good drainage. I know they’ll rot after a few years but until then, they’ll look great on the new front porch, brimming with bright flowers. We don’t waste much around here.<\/p>\n

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

Just a reminder to all of you who said you’d like to come to our June homesteading seminar — time’s getting short and if you are planning on coming, let us know. There’s a lot of planning involved and we want to make every seminar truly great.<\/p>\n

Our chickens are now starting to lay like crazy and yesterday I even got our first turkey egg. Wow! And with all those eggs, I made a quiche with mushrooms, onions, broccoli, ham dices, and cheese. For dessert I whipped up a lemon meringue pie, using an extra three egg whites for the meringue. Boy, did that taste good. We homesteaders really look forward to spring’s bounty, starting with eggs!<\/p>\n

We still have plenty of seeds left so any of you who would like to order from our little seed business, feel free. There are plenty of Bill Bean tomato and Hopi Pale Grey squash seeds left! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will trimmed off the log rafters from the new front porch roof yesterday and was going to pick up the sawn off ends of the two-inch boards he’d roofed the porch with. I knew they were headed for firewood, which we don’t need. All of a sudden, I pictured rustic planters! So I ask him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895"}],"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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}