{"id":9897,"date":"2023-05-04T18:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2023-05-04T18:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T22:51:54","slug":"our-first-flowers-are-blooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/05\/04\/our-first-flowers-are-blooming\/","title":{"rendered":"Our first flowers are blooming"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were quite surprised to see some beautiful white crocus blooming at the base of our lilac bush, on the edge of the front yard. I’m not sure where they came from, as I didn’t plant them! One of those little mysteries of life, I guess. Maybe a squirrel decided they should go there? As we’ve been having some nice, warm weather, the grass is actually getting green, and more flowers are popping up.<\/p>\n

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We were so happy to see these crocus this morning!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All of a sudden, we’re seeing GREEN! So very welcome, too.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, our friends, Mike, Dara, and Sheri came over to help out. Mike helped Will finish up on the manure spreader while Dara cleaned the greenhouse and Sheri mulched the front flower bed. I was so <\/em>grateful for all the help! My knee is slowly getting better but there are just some things it rebels at doing. Like standing too long, bending way down and walking a lot. Instead of doing those things, I continued transplanting peppers. Finally, I finished up with them. Now, all the transplants are in the greenhouse except for the fancy petunias. I want to keep a close eye on them as they dry out so quickly and often need pinching back so they get really bushy instead of leggy.<\/p>\n

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The greenhouse is getting full!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our orange koi are now happily “swimming” in the nicely mulched flower bed again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will got the manure spreader all fixed up. It looks so nice with the new pressure treated floor and rebuilt bars. He was going crazy, looking for the end of the power takeoff shaft. He and Mike walked all over the place, looking for it. Finally, Will found it down in the barn, sitting in an old metal child’s wagon he saved from the dump years ago. Then he remembered taking it off while it was parked down there after breaking down \u2014 again. Now it’s all ready to haul manure! Hooray! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We were quite surprised to see some beautiful white crocus blooming at the base of our lilac bush, on the edge of the front yard. I’m not sure where they came from, as I didn’t plant them! One of those little mysteries of life, I guess. Maybe a squirrel decided they should go there? As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897"}],"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=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9902,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions\/9902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}