{"id":9957,"date":"2023-06-19T16:43:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9957"},"modified":"2023-06-19T16:43:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:43:22","slug":"we-had-a-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/06\/19\/we-had-a-busy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a busy week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Of course, we were planting, planting, planting. I’ve been trying to clean out the greenhouse except for the various habaneros I am trying this year, which need heat and a longer season than we can provide naturally. So, I’ll pot them up and keep them inside all summer\/fall and pick out my favorites to grow out next year. But <\/em>the big kicker this week is that David and Elizabeth had <\/em>to be moved out of their apartment in her mom’s basement by June 18th as her folks are going to list the house for sale and want to have it all spruced up by then. Of course, their new house isn’t finished so it was a whole lot of sanding sheetrock, painting, fixing, moving junk, sweeping, etc. Luckily, some of their friends and relatives pitched in and got it camping-livable by Saturday when the move was scheduled to happen. Moving day came and David had borrowed Will’s big red Dodge and the stock trailer to do the hauling. A few days earlier, he’d hauled 500 gallons of water from our well to pump into his two storage tanks in the house. (The plumbing is almost done \u2026 but the one toilet flushes!) As before, some kind folks came along to help, including Elizabeth’s parents, with a trailer.<\/p>\n

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Saturday was moving day for David, Elizabeth, and Delilah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By 4:30, all was unloaded and pretty much set into place. You know the old saying, “Many hands make light work.” Well, it’s pretty much true. Thank you everyone! Today, they’re still trying to find things and unpack the necessary things. But, as their kitchen sink, shipped from China, is still in California, some things will have to wait awhile. Hey, it’s better than camping in a tent! Delilah enjoyed “helping” and riding on the ATV with me to get things from our house. Yes, I put her in front of me and held on to her with my legs and one hand. And <\/em>I drove just about slow enough to walk next to me.<\/p>\n

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Many helpers made quick work of the move.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve also been busy establishing some container gardens, just for the convenience of walking out the door and grabbing salad fixings. Our old metal stock tank is now planted into various varieties of lettuce, as is a second, fiberglass, leaking tank that Will brought up and filled with garden dirt and rotted manure, topped by a few inches of ProMix. I also planted a few tomatoes in large pots as well as some sweet peppers. They all look nice and are right out the front door.<\/p>\n

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This is my first container of this year, lettuces in a rusted out stock tank.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, Will’s working at hooking our multi-fuel generator to our 1,000-gallon propane tank. We’ve been running it off small tanks but it’s inconvenient as you run out of fuel when you least expect it and can’t get refills unless you pay through the nose on the weekend. He had already run the main line underground last year but hadn’t had time to get it hooked up.<\/p>\n

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Aren’t these fat honeyberries gorgeous? Soon they’ll be jam and jars of fruit, ready for baking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning, Will picked a bucket of honeyberries, our first spring fruit, besides rhubarb, harvested. When I finish up here, I’m making a batch of jam and canning the rest to use in muffins, cakes, pancakes, and sweet breads. We love our honeyberries as they flower early and the flowers are not harmed by spring frosts, like nearly all other fruits. If you’re not familiar with honeyberries, they’re like elongated blueberries, a bit tart, with great flavor and hugely productive. We’ve got eight bushes of several different varieties for good pollination. Yum! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of course, we were planting, planting, planting. I’ve been trying to clean out the greenhouse except for the various habaneros I am trying this year, which need heat and a longer season than we can provide naturally. So, I’ll pot them up and keep them inside all summer\/fall and pick out my favorites to grow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957"}],"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=9957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9962,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9957\/revisions\/9962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}