{"id":9414,"date":"2022-05-16T16:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9414"},"modified":"2022-05-16T16:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:03:12","slug":"why-are-there-only-so-many-daylight-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2022\/05\/16\/why-are-there-only-so-many-daylight-hours\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are there only so many daylight hours?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now it’s spring for sure and things are popping around here. Our daffodils are in full bloom after sitting under snowbanks for months and boy do they look beautiful! Our friend, Heather, came late last fall and ask if she could do something to help me out. I handed her several bags of fancy daffodils I hadn’t been able to get to and said to just plant them wherever she could find a spot. It was quite late, and I didn’t even know if they’d make it. But they did and I love them. Thank you Heather!<\/p>\n

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I’m so thrilled with these late-planted daffodils!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our baby goats are all here (all four of them), three boys and one girl. The little buckling I had in the house and didn’t know if he would make it came around just fine. And his mother, a first-freshener, took him with no problem. Whew! I hate milking those first-fresheners, as they have such short teats. But next year, both of the does will have perfect udders and be much easier to milk. David was here on Saturday, working on his house so I asked him to help catch baby goats so we could disbud them. I had been putting it off as I have a hard time catching those fast little buggers and <\/em>I really hate to burn their horn buds. It stinks and they yell. But I know it’s saving their lives as with horns, they can get caught and strangled in each other’s collars and the squares of the wire fence. For us, it’s a necessary thing. They are also vaccinated against overeating disease and tetanus at the same time, plus a later booster. So, we’re not the only ones that get vaccinated! Will and I just got our second COVID booster with no ill effects, whatsoever, not even a sore arm.<\/p>\n

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We love watching the baby goats play king of the mountain on this upside-down bathtub.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The buckling on the left is the nearly-dead newborn I tube fed and warmed up in the house. He’s great now. Notice the rings on their horn buds, where we disbudded them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was busy and Will took “my” tractor and tiller out and tilled the Sand Garden and right now is tilling the Main Garden. The others are still too wet to till. This first tilling keeps the weeds down; we’ll be tilling again at least one more time, maybe twice before planting. We’re also busy picking up, pulling stock panels down off T posts \u2014 which we use as trellises for pole beans \u2014 removing hoses, water lines, and posts from the various gardens. Our asparagus has popped up too, so tonight, we’re having the first asparagus of the spring. That will be a celebration! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now it’s spring for sure and things are popping around here. Our daffodils are in full bloom after sitting under snowbanks for months and boy do they look beautiful! Our friend, Heather, came late last fall and ask if she could do something to help me out. I handed her several bags of fancy daffodils […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414"}],"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=9414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9419,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9414\/revisions\/9419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}