{"id":4040,"date":"2014-06-05T14:09:07","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4040"},"modified":"2014-06-05T14:09:07","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T18:09:07","slug":"with-the-heat-and-the-rain-boy-do-we-have-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/06\/05\/with-the-heat-and-the-rain-boy-do-we-have-bugs\/","title":{"rendered":"With the heat and the rain, boy, do we have bugs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve never had many mosquitoes here but this year I think everyone in Minnesota is complaining about them, us included. So we&#8217;re fighting back! We put up eight new birdhouses and have several families of birds already moved in. We have barn and cliff swallows, phoebees, chickadees, and nuthatches, all of which eat bugs. Swallows, especially, eat hundreds of mosquitoes and other not-so-nice bugs every single day. And when they&#8217;re feeding a family, that quadruples. So we&#8217;re hoping it&#8217;ll put a dent in our flying pests pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Birdhouse.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4041\" alt=\"Birdhouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Birdhouse.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Folks will start arriving for our seminar tomorrow afternoon and evening so we&#8217;re getting set. Instead of renting a port-A-potty at $120 a pop for the weekend, Will is putting together an outhouse to use instead. It will smell a whole lot better! And it is a thing of beauty, made from birch plywood (we got it free), home sawn 2x4s and one-inch lumber.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Outhouse.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4042\" alt=\"Outhouse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Outhouse.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our onions are popping up and the tomatoes look fantastic. I&#8217;m pulling the Wall-O-Waters because many are way out of the top. It&#8217;s amazing what heat and rain will do. We&#8217;re really ahead of time this year as we usually get cold weather and frosts right up till June 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Well, gotta go. Plenty to do yet and only hours of daylight left. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve never had many mosquitoes here but this year I think everyone in Minnesota is complaining about them, us included. So we&#8217;re fighting back! We put up eight new birdhouses and have several families of birds already moved in. We have barn and cliff swallows, phoebees, chickadees, and nuthatches, all of which eat bugs. Swallows, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040"}],"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=4040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}