{"id":6544,"date":"2018-02-28T18:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2018-02-28T18:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:15:58","slug":"the-sun-is-out-and-the-birds-are-singing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2018\/02\/28\/the-sun-is-out-and-the-birds-are-singing\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun is out and the birds are singing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snow is melting and I can even see grass in the backyard (a tiny bit of grass where David ran the snowblower to the solar panels). I know you are all waiting for spring like we are so I thought I’d give you a glimpse of what we’re all waiting for via photos from our garden last year.<\/p>\n

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Our hoop houses look so happy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was shocked at all the bright colors! GREEN. RED. ORANGE. Wow! My eyes are so used to white.<\/p>\n

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Color! We really miss things like these colorful peppers this time of year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Remember red, ripe tomatoes on the vine?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night David helped Will boost our last wall cabinet into place and screw it down. Then this morning I got an e-mail saying my last two cabinets which will be added to the island are in at Lowe’s! What good timing. Yep, we’re all still sick. But even though we’re slow, we are getting a few things done: seed orders filled, chores done, seeds started inside, etc.<\/p>\n

Just a little FYI: I had some packages of two-year-old onion seed. All my life I’ve been told they were only good for a year. We tested them, just to see what would happen and they all made 100% sprouts! Now I can send them on to Uganda with a box of other seed for folks in need there. (I didn’t want to send bad seed.)<\/p>\n

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Doesn’t a summer garden look lush? Better than snowbanks, for sure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I bought four rolls of 6′ high 2″x4″ wire for garden fencing, and hope to buy another couple soon. We’ve found if we keep pecking away at big expenses like that on the off season, we have a ready supply waiting for us come spring when we need it. The folks at the store gave us the “weird eye” but we just smiled and loaded it up. Spring IS coming. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snow is melting and I can even see grass in the backyard (a tiny bit of grass where David ran the snowblower to the solar panels). I know you are all waiting for spring like we are so I thought I’d give you a glimpse of what we’re all waiting for via photos from our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544"}],"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=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6550,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions\/6550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}