{"id":9867,"date":"2023-04-17T18:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T22:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9867"},"modified":"2023-04-17T18:18:44","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T22:18:44","slug":"from-78-degrees-f-down-to-a-near-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/04\/17\/from-78-degrees-f-down-to-a-near-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"From 78 degrees F down to a near blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weather is so <\/em>Minnesota April. We nearly always get that last big storm, and I was hoping it wouldn’t come this year, after we had a week of beautiful warm weather. Our family Easter get-together was scheduled for yesterday. I opened my eyes to a total whiteout, outdoors! The wind was blowing, and the snow was so thick I could barely see the storage barn, only 50 feet from the house. Then my son, Bill, called to tell me he had the stomach flu. They weren’t going to come. Bummer! I’d been baking goodies all Saturday. Well, at least David and his family came. We did have a great time. Delilah loved her Princess crown and Easter basket, then rode her little feet-powered bike that used to be her dad’s when he was her age.<\/p>\n

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Sunday we woke up to a near blizzard, which dumped 6 inches of snow on us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today we went to do our taxes. Whew! We didn’t have to pay this year. I’m so scared of the IRS it’s not funny. So, I got a migraine on the way over to our tax guy, Jeff, at Tax Tyme in Chisholm. He’s so good yet is careful. Luckily, the roads were much better than they were yesterday. When we got home, I spotted our first robin, huddled in a birch tree on the edge of the yard. It was windy and cold and he was all puffed up, double his real size, trying to stay warm. Poor guy!<\/p>\n

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With snow outside, our little petunia seedlings look so happy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My little seedlings are doing great. The fancy petunias are getting stronger, and the tomatoes are ready for me to transplant. That will happen real soon. Most have two sets of true leaves. It won’t be long before we have to crank up the heat in the greenhouse to receive the flats of transplants. Now if it will just really warm up to spring. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our weather is so Minnesota April. We nearly always get that last big storm, and I was hoping it wouldn’t come this year, after we had a week of beautiful warm weather. Our family Easter get-together was scheduled for yesterday. I opened my eyes to a total whiteout, outdoors! The wind was blowing, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867"}],"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=9867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9870,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9867\/revisions\/9870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}