{"id":7484,"date":"2019-05-03T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=7484"},"modified":"2019-05-03T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:28:21","slug":"we-woke-up-to-an-inch-of-snow-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2019\/05\/03\/we-woke-up-to-an-inch-of-snow-this-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"We woke up to an inch of snow this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our temperatures have been running about 10 degrees below normal \u2014 or more. Brrr. When Mittens saw snow on the ground this morning, she made a scrunched up ugly face. She was not happy! It was warm enough for it to melt in an hour, but it’s still overcast and in the forties. I decided to make a run to town as I had to mail some seed orders anyway. On the way I noticed the ditches where two years ago they’d run a brush chopping machine, there was a new batch of beautiful, straight willow shoots. I just have to bring the pruning shears next time and cut a big batch so I can make some baskets. The willow shoots are perfect for that. I love my baskets. Besides being very beautiful in a rustic way, they are extremely useful around our homestead for gathering eggs, harvesting vegetables, picking plums, and rinsing vegetables to mention a few uses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mittens was not happy to see more snow this morning!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Because it was snowing this morning, I didn’t put the seedling plants out on the deck for their daily hardening off session. I hope to be able to do that tomorrow afternoon. In the morning I head for Moose Lake for the grandkids’ Grandparents’ Day program at school. That’s always fun although my back gets sore from sitting on a bleacher for two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Even though our tomatoes and peppers couldn’t go outside today, they look happy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These are the Chinese Python Beans we got from Baker Creek this spring.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This spring I planted something entirely new to us. Baker Creek is offering Chinese Python Bean seeds. (They really aren’t a bean; in fact I’m not sure what<\/em> they are.) But they are cool looking and grow three feet (or better) long and are supposed to taste great. As I’m pretty sure they’re a long-season plant I started them inside and they’re doing fine. We are really interested in finding out more about them. We always love trying new things! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our temperatures have been running about 10 degrees below normal \u2014 or more. Brrr. When Mittens saw snow on the ground this morning, she made a scrunched up ugly face. She was not happy! It was warm enough for it to melt in an hour, but it’s still overcast and in the forties. I decided […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484"}],"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=7484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7489,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7484\/revisions\/7489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}