{"id":5159,"date":"2015-12-16T19:05:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5152"},"modified":"2019-03-22T13:56:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T17:56:30","slug":"we-have-a-regular-visitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/12\/16\/we-have-a-regular-visitor\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a regular visitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer and some of the fall, we&#8217;ve had occasional visits by a wild turkey hen. She walked in last summer, interested in a couple of our domestic toms that wander around the yard. Then she got spooked and took off. Will saw her in the oat field this fall. We were real excited as wild turkeys are plentiful further south but not up here. They&#8217;re very rare. So when this lady showed up recently, we were tremendously excited. Will quickly went and turned a couple of our turkey hens out and spread some corn around in the edge of the driveway. She keeps coming back for more. I think she&#8217;s lonely as well as hungry with the snow getting deeper. We&#8217;ll keep feed out all winter for her. She&#8217;s getting less spooky around us and the dogs. Hopefully, she&#8217;ll hatch out some eggs, come spring, and populate our area with more wild turkeys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Turkeys_9966.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Turkeys_9966.jpg\" alt=\"Turkeys_9966\" width=\"446\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5153\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been under the weather again with a bout of diverticulitis. My fault \u2014 I ate popcorn. I sure won&#8217;t do that again as it&#8217;s been quite a while since my last attack. The doctor&#8217;s talking surgery and I sure want to avoid that if possible.<\/p>\n<p>Will and I went to get our pork yesterday and take frozen pork down to Bill in Sturgeon Lake. We met him at his lunch break. Luckily, he only lives a very few miles from home so he goes home for lunch. So we had a nice visit and headed home.<\/p>\n<p>Great news! The new refrigerator is working perfectly. Merry Christmas to me \u2014 I&#8217;m SO excited! What a lot of room. That&#8217;s real nice, especially with the holidays coming up. I just love it.<\/p>\n<p>Although I don&#8217;t usually browse the internet, a friend, Pam, sent me a real nice Awwww moment link. <a href=\"https:\/\/animalchannel.co\/dog-owl-friends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">animalchannel.co\/dog-owl-friends\/<\/a> It sure made my day and I still think of it often and go back to see it again. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the summer and some of the fall, we&#8217;ve had occasional visits by a wild turkey hen. She walked in last summer, interested in a couple of our domestic toms that wander around the yard. Then she got spooked and took off. Will saw her in the oat field this fall. We were real excited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,11,13,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159"}],"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=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7415,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/7415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}