{"id":5921,"date":"2017-05-24T18:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T22:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:44:17","slug":"i-hope-to-see-many-of-you-at-the-self-reliance-expo-in-irving-texas-this-friday-and-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/05\/24\/i-hope-to-see-many-of-you-at-the-self-reliance-expo-in-irving-texas-this-friday-and-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope to see many of you at the Self Reliance Expo in Irving, Texas this Friday and Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m madly trying to get ready to leave for four days and this is a bad time to do that with all the planting I&#8217;m supposed to be doing. But, heck, it&#8217;ll get done when I get back, right? David and Ashley&#8217;s duck family is now in their new duck house\/outside pen, complete with a swimming pool. The inside isn&#8217;t finished yet so they have to be herded in through the duck door and lifted up into their plastic tote for the night so they don&#8217;t poop on the unpainted walls. But they&#8217;re real troopers and hop right inside at sundown. (We have lots of owls so they can&#8217;t stay outside at night!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/05\/24\/i-hope-to-see-many-of-you-at-the-self-reliance-expo-in-irving-texas-this-friday-and-saturday\/ducks_1753\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5922\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ducks_1753.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"323\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ducks_1753.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ducks_1753-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Ducks_1753-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago I planted some Johnny Jump-Ups in my front daylily bed and they&#8217;ve re-seeded happily. They were blooming through the snow! I&#8217;m leaving them as they sure won&#8217;t hurt the daylilies and make a nice groundcover. I love all those happy little faces smiling up at me!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/05\/24\/i-hope-to-see-many-of-you-at-the-self-reliance-expo-in-irving-texas-this-friday-and-saturday\/jumpups_1757\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5923\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jumpups_1757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jumpups_1757.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Jumpups_1757-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, our pearl grey mother turkey came off the nest with babies. She has nine. I worry about them as it&#8217;s been cold and raining but she won&#8217;t take them inside; we tried to herd them. No dice! But today the sun&#8217;s out and it&#8217;s warm so I&#8217;m hoping more warm weather&#8217;s in store for us all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/05\/24\/i-hope-to-see-many-of-you-at-the-self-reliance-expo-in-irving-texas-this-friday-and-saturday\/baby-turkey_1746\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5925\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Baby-turkey_1746.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Baby-turkey_1746.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Baby-turkey_1746-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope all of you who can will come to the Irving Convention Center for the Self-Reliance Expo this weekend. I&#8217;ll be speaking but when I&#8217;m not, Ill be helping Dave Duffy and Annie Tuttle man the Self-Reliance\/Backwoods Home Magazine booth. I sure do love meeting folks at these events! So don&#8217;t be shy; come on by and say hi. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m madly trying to get ready to leave for four days and this is a bad time to do that with all the planting I&#8217;m supposed to be doing. But, heck, it&#8217;ll get done when I get back, right? David and Ashley&#8217;s duck family is now in their new duck house\/outside pen, complete with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921"}],"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=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6196,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/6196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}