{"id":9315,"date":"2022-03-09T13:17:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9315"},"modified":"2022-03-09T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T18:17:32","slug":"sometimes-you-get-an-unexpected-break-in-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2022\/03\/09\/sometimes-you-get-an-unexpected-break-in-your-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes you get an unexpected break in your day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our routine is pretty much the same, day after day. We get up. I shower while Will builds up the fire in the living room stove. When I’m dried off, I go out to do morning chores while Will has his morning coffee in his easy chair, listening to rock with his headphones. Then we hit the seed orders. I start filling some while he’s still chilling. Then, after I’ve done several, he gets in there and fills orders while I pack them to mail out. But this was changed when my son, Bill, asked if we were going to be home Monday. Of course, we said “yes.” And he explained the family was going down to the Wisconsin Dells, to their favorite water park for a mini vacation over the kids’ spring break from school. It’s a yearly thing, which COVID interrupted. We baby-sit their Lab, Buddy, who is Hondo’s best friend. Spencer is getting too old to play but Buddy is Hondo’s age and the two of them wrestle for hours outside.<\/p>\n

So, instead of packing and mailing seeds, we got to visit the family for the day. How nice that was. Grandson, Mason, is in a robotics club at school and they just competed a big competition in Duluth, where folks from all over attended, bringing their robots. Now, these robots are BIG! I imagined they were little toy-like critters. But, no<\/em>, they’re big <\/em>and teams played a kind of basketball with them! We were amazed. And while tech-whiz, Mason, was here I got him to turn on the sound for my text messages and Will had him fix a couple of glitches on his phone which is smarter than he is. (Don’t tell him I said that!) Ava is continuing with her riding lessons and is very happy with them. She can’t wait for the next one, each week.<\/p>\n

We talked about gardens and what they wanted to plant this year. Bill plants a big patch of potatoes at Kelly’s dad’s place and I asked him if he would plant some Hopi Pale Grey squash there, too, as it’s a very large spot. He agreed, so we now have another “garden,” although not at our place.<\/p>\n

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It won’t be all that long before we gardeners start enjoying some juicy tomatoes like these Ted’s Italian.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I can’t tell you how beautiful the amaryllis I bought at Christmas, as just a bulb, is looking. It’s starting to bloom, with a huge, very dark red blossom that stops folks in their tracks. It sure gives you inspiration for spring planting, which is coming on pretty soon, now.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t my amaryllis beautiful?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ll be starting peppers in just about two weeks and we’re real excited about that. Will was out in the greenhouse, with no heat, on a sunny day that was only 20 degrees, and it was in the 70’s inside! Some folks have sent us some of their family heirloom seeds and we’re excitedly waiting to plant them. There are peppers, tomatoes, beans, and squash, along with a very old Seneca flour corn I grew years and years ago, in New Mexico. Come on, spring!<\/p>\n

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Of course, with the coming harvest, comes plenty of work like here, Will, husking sweet corn to can.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our routine is pretty much the same, day after day. We get up. I shower while Will builds up the fire in the living room stove. When I’m dried off, I go out to do morning chores while Will has his morning coffee in his easy chair, listening to rock with his headphones. Then we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,9,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315"}],"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=9315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9319,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9315\/revisions\/9319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}