{"id":1813,"date":"2012-04-26T09:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:13:03","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:13:03","slug":"summer-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/?p=1813","title":{"rendered":"Summer in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had a record breaking temperature of 97! Last week there was freezing temperatures and we had to cover the peaches. I just wasn&#8217;t willing to take a chance with these fuzzy babies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Peaches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1819\" title=\"Peaches\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Peaches-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Peaches-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Peaches.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every day they look just a little bigger!<\/p>\n<p>This plum tree has quite a lot of fruit too, but the other, different variety plum tree has none. It&#8217;s only the second season for both the peaches and the plums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1820\" title=\"plums\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plums-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plums-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/plums.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These Knockout Roses are doing great, as this is only their second season, too. Whoever thought up this concept is brilliant..look at all of the buds! I have yellow ones, as well, but they are not so prolific.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/knockouts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1823\" title=\"knockouts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/knockouts-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/knockouts-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/knockouts.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We need some rain which they keep promising and then backing off, now they are saying tomorrow, so we did water this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the heat yesterday, I stayed inside and did some needed work with packaging patterns and generally straightening up the storage area. Sometimes it is just easier to choose to do the fun things! More of the same today, I guess&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we had a record breaking temperature of 97! Last week there was freezing temperatures and we had to cover the peaches. I just wasn&#8217;t willing to take a chance with these fuzzy babies. Every day they look just a little bigger! This plum tree has quite a lot of fruit too, but the other, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,40],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-business","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1825,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruthpowersartquilts.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}