{"id":14715,"date":"2016-01-05T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14715"},"modified":"2015-12-30T15:28:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T23:28:44","slug":"from-the-decjan-zephyr-my-personal-history-part-10-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/05\/from-the-decjan-zephyr-my-personal-history-part-10-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"(From the Dec\/Jan Zephyr) My Personal History, Part 10: Life &#038; Times in Southeast Utah\u2026by Verona Stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pete tried so hard to get back to work and help me.\u00a0 He had several short jobs but Dr. Allen told him he would have to be careful because he had walking pneumonia.\u00a0 He tried some mining and did assessment work on the Wilson Mesa claims that he and Mr. Balsley had.\u00a0 He could not help me much on the farm, mainly because he did not know how to farm.\u00a0 The one thing on the farm he could do and I couldn\u2019t was put up the hay.<\/p>\n<p>Our orchard was mostly peaches.\u00a0 There was some cherry trees, apples and pears.\u00a0 I sure found out Pete did not know what he was talking about when he said it would not be any work for me because peaches were almost a year time job.\u00a0 I pruned them in the winter, watered them all summer and fall, picked and sold them in the fall.\u00a0 I forgot to mention they had to be sprayed at least twice in the spring and early summer and most years they had to be thinned.<\/p>\n<p>I planted corn and alfalfa, melons and a big garden.\u00a0 The melons were planted close to the creek so when the Indians came in the fall to get willows from the squaw brush to make baskets, stands and chairs they could get ripe melons out of the patch.\u00a0 They were very careful not to step on the vines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more from Verona&#8217;s Personal History, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/12\/01\/my-personal-history-part-10-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14716\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/v-32-e1449340837998.jpg\" alt=\"v-32\" width=\"550\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/12\/01\/my-personal-history-part-10-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/12\/01\/my-personal-history-part-10-life-times-in-southeast-utahby-verona-stocks\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt: Pete tried so hard to get back to work and help me.\u00a0 He had several short jobs but Dr. Allen told him he would have to be careful because he had walking pneumonia.\u00a0 He tried some mining and did assessment work on the Wilson Mesa claims that he and Mr. Balsley had.\u00a0 He could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14717,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14715\/revisions\/14717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}