{"id":9934,"date":"2023-05-30T17:11:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9934"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:11:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T21:11:31","slug":"were-in-danger-of-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/05\/30\/were-in-danger-of-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re in danger of wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"

As it’s been unseasonably hot, breezy, and very dry, we’re in extreme danger of experiencing a wildfire. Of course, we’re always very careful of any fires and now we don’t even burn the wood stove on cool evenings as there’s always the possibility of fly ash setting the dry swamp grass ablaze. We’re the most worried about vacationers in the area having bonfires as few understand how dangerous that is. (Many of them escape the yard and set the woods on fire!) We’re supposed to get scattered showers but I’m not seeing that today.<\/p>\n

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With spring here, our lilacs are in full, astounding bloom.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because it’s been dry, Will and I have been very busy hauling manure to various gardens and tilling it in. He hauls and I till with my little baby Kubota and tiller. I had trouble getting up on it, even though it’s a small tractor. Then I got the bright idea of using the plastic stool I use when I have to get up in the Ford 4×4 without running boards. Hooray! That works like a charm. I get up and get to tilling. When I’m done, I am just careful to park the tractor exactly where it was next to the stool so I can get off easily. I’ve tilled the Main Garden, Sand Garden, Central Garden, and Wolf Garden twice now. Will tilled the Berry Patch, as that involves lots of backing up. To back up the Kubota, you have to push down very hard on the reverse pedal and that’s kind of painful on my surgical knee.<\/p>\n

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Will tilled the berry patch so I wouldn’t have to back up, over and over again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our fruit trees look awesome so I’m hoping we’ll have a wonderful fruit year. Apples, cherries, plums, apricots, and wild fruit are all blooming heavily. The star, though, is the row of Hansen Bush cherries along our front flower bed. That row is absolutely white with tons and tons of blossoms! Hopefully, each will produce a fat, black cherry. Yum!<\/p>\n

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The Hansen Bush cherries are going to produce like crazy this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve canned up another big batch of asparagus and am working on rhubarb too. Today, I got the Atlantic Giant pumpkins planted. Yesterday, it was the Damun super-sweet corn and Arnie’s Golden Butternut squash. Hopefully, today I’ll also get the Navajo Robin’s Egg Blue corn and Glass Gem Popcorn planted in packs indoors to give it a couple of weeks more growing time as both are a little late. Lots and lots to do yet! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As it’s been unseasonably hot, breezy, and very dry, we’re in extreme danger of experiencing a wildfire. Of course, we’re always very careful of any fires and now we don’t even burn the wood stove on cool evenings as there’s always the possibility of fly ash setting the dry swamp grass ablaze. We’re the most […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934"}],"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=9934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9934\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}