{"id":9950,"date":"2023-06-14T17:25:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9950"},"modified":"2023-06-14T17:25:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T21:25:43","slug":"due-to-out-of-control-canadian-wildfires-our-sky-has-been-orange-with-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/06\/14\/due-to-out-of-control-canadian-wildfires-our-sky-has-been-orange-with-smoke\/","title":{"rendered":"Due to out of control Canadian wildfires, our sky has been orange with smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re always on the lookout for fire, here in the Northwoods. After all, we are in a very dry period and often, city folks burn their trash, have campfires, bonfires, and roast marshmallows with no thought that their fire may take off into the grass and woods. Our friend, Jason, is a firefighter and has been busy with several crews, trying to contain a fire north of us. Sometimes, it’s hard to tell just where the smoke is coming from. After all, who would think that smell of smoke and orange sky would be from fires hundreds of miles northwest of us, in Canada? But we’re always checking the sky to make sure that smell of wood smoke isn’t coming from somewhere much closer to us. It’s part of a preparedness lifestyle; you don’t want to be caught with your pants down, so to speak. So far, so good.<\/p>\n

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Each day, a new iris wows us in the garden.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve been really busy, planting, planting, planting. We’re done with pumpkins, squash, melons, and most of our beans and corn. While I’m finishing up the last of the beans, Will’s been busy driving steel fence posts next to our tomato plants in preparation for getting the mulch and tomato cages in place. I’ve got just a few more peppers to set in, then will do several rows of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage plants in the Main Garden, where we can water easily.<\/p>\n

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Will is getting ready to put tomato cages on our hundreds of tomatoes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was surprised this morning when I got up. I always look out on our beaver pond to see if there’s any wildlife there. This morning, there were three swans! Two were adults and one was a grayish yearling. They’ve spent the entire day out there, much to our delight.<\/p>\n

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These swans visited our beaver pond all day today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, when I was driving the ATV over to the Wolf Garden to plant, a fisher ran across the driveway in front of me. It’s the second one I’ve spotted around here. They’re big, black, and have a bushy tail, almost like a wolverine, to whom they’re closely related. Of course, we’re a bit concerned that he\/she might come here for a poultry snack. But, as we lock the birds in at night, I really don’t think that’ll happen. In reality, in over 18 years here, we have had very few wildlife problems. We really do enjoy seeing them, however! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re always on the lookout for fire, here in the Northwoods. After all, we are in a very dry period and often, city folks burn their trash, have campfires, bonfires, and roast marshmallows with no thought that their fire may take off into the grass and woods. Our friend, Jason, is a firefighter and has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950"}],"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=9950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9956,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9950\/revisions\/9956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}