{"id":10050,"date":"2023-08-24T18:29:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10050"},"modified":"2023-08-24T18:29:11","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T22:29:11","slug":"cloudy-drizzly-weather-lets-will-work-on-our-water-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/08\/24\/cloudy-drizzly-weather-lets-will-work-on-our-water-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloudy, drizzly weather lets Will work on our water system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our 12-volt water pump, which gives us water pressure from our two storage tanks in the basement, to our outlets like the sinks, toilet, and washing machine, was getting worn out. Will decided to replace it with a new 12-volt pump with higher psi. We both enjoy a pounding shower, not just a “raining on you” shower. Then he found out our pressure tank’s bladder had ruptured, which made the pump kick on every time we turned on the water. Okay, then he ordered a 120-volt pump. That <\/em>would give us a good shower. While waiting for it to come, he bought and installed a new pressure tank. And an in-line pressure switch. The pump came quickly, but it was broken! He called and they sent another. It came in two days (a miracle!). He installed that. But it was a pump that let the water flow back into the line when not in use. No water coming to the faucets. He figures he has to install a check valve so as to not let that happen. But that means a 30-mile one way trip to town! So, he unhooked the 120-volt pump and hooked up the 12-volt pump again. That meant dozens of trips up and down our basement stairs. Poor Will is not only frustrated but his legs are killing him. Today, he’s out cutting firewood.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m seeding out tomatoes like mad. The whole kitchen table is full of containers of fermenting tomato seeds. And the Provider beans are approaching over-maturity, where they get tough. I’d given away all I could to folks, then, yesterday, as an answer to prayer, our friend, Heather, came. I can <\/em>pick some beans, but we’re talking about 25 feet of row, here! She picked while we visited, to save my poor knees, then we split them, so she got half, and I got half. Today, I’m canning beans like crazy. I’ve got 12 pints in the canner now and another 12+, cut and waiting to be canned. I was right, some were too tough \u2014 the cows will love them.<\/p>\n

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Tomatoes are EVERYWHERE! These are beautiful (and tasty!) Fireworks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are so happy with the morning glories I planted on a new trellis in the Main Garden. They’re Grandpa Ott’s. And they flower much earlier than do the blue Heavenly Blue variety. They are just covering the trellis and reaching for the sky!<\/p>\n

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Aren’t Grandpa Ott’s morning glories pretty?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, I was walking by the bathtub that sits under the eaves of the goat barn as sort of a rain barrel. In it, were dozens of fat tadpoles. I’ve been watching them and yesterday, I saw one with legs, sitting on the side of the tub! Then, I looked closer, to see many with legs, floating on top of the water, learning to use their newly developed lungs. I’m amazed at them being able to go from using gills, to lungs, in only a couple of days. Soon, they’ll be losing their tails and hopping away in the grass.<\/p>\n

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Here are our tadpoles becoming frogs. (Sorry for not so good a photo, but if I got closer, they’d dive down deep.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our 12-volt water pump, which gives us water pressure from our two storage tanks in the basement, to our outlets like the sinks, toilet, and washing machine, was getting worn out. Will decided to replace it with a new 12-volt pump with higher psi. We both enjoy a pounding shower, not just a “raining on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050"}],"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=10050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10054,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10050\/revisions\/10054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}