{"id":10067,"date":"2023-09-05T20:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T00:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2023-09-05T20:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T00:01:44","slug":"you-ever-have-one-of-those-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/09\/05\/you-ever-have-one-of-those-weeks\/","title":{"rendered":"You ever have “one of those weeks?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just went through a doozy. It started last week when David went into Walmart for a tire appointment. He’d ordered two front tires for his car as his were worn out. He waited for an hour and a half, and the guy finally told him they couldn’t find his tires! They issued a refund for him and when David got home, he looked at it and it was for one tire only. He got that straightened out, then his refrigerator crashed. Luckily, Elizabeth had a dorm-sized fridge that they could cram all their food into. Then, the generator died. He ended up having to buy a good used one from Facebook Marketplace.<\/p>\n

Of course, having very hot weather has not been fun. The tree leaves are turning and falling, way early this year. Even though they’re beautiful, we’d rather see green leaves.<\/p>\n

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Our leaves are changing way early this year and falling too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then the bad luck switched to us! Will’s been haying like mad. But he’s had breakdowns way too often. The power takeoff shaft broke off his big tractor. He came home and got the next biggest tractor. The baler broke, over, and over. Finally, he got it fixed and was baling near dark when the wiring on the tractor caught fire! Luckily, he got it out and it just melted the insulation off the wire to the starter, which must have shorted out. The neighbor started helping him as rain was forecast for Tuesday. And his <\/em>baler broke down! After a couple more fits and starts with minor breakdowns, Will finally got the field done.<\/p>\n

Oh, I forgot to mention that on Sunday, the cows got out and went for a long walk, all the way to the highway! Luckily, friends and neighbors (and the sheriff’s office!) called to let us know. We got them in with no trouble, but it sure left us frazzled. Now the cows are in “jail,” eating round bales instead of pasture grass. Bad cows! I’m sure hoping our bad luck streak has left us.<\/p>\n

Our sweet corn is coming on like gang busters! The seed corn is nearly dry and our friend, Heather, came today to bag ears to keep the birds out of the cobs while it dries down. Blue Jays love <\/em>sweet corn, right off the cob.<\/p>\n

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Our sweet corn is ripe, so we’ve got weeks of good eating ahead!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We also picked our first muskmelons \u2014 Oka melons \u2014 and they will be for dinner tonight. I can’t wait! Boy, do they ever smell great. Unfortunately, the voles think so too; we found several that had mouse holes eaten in the bottoms, with seeds and some of the flesh eaten up. Our plums are ripening fast on the two trees we were given by friends and planted by a dear neighbor who has since died. We call them Homestead plums as they were from a very old homestead, dating back over 100 years. They are not wild, American plums, but larger and a different color. We love eating them and I think I’ll make canned plum sauce out of some. Yum!<\/p>\n

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We’ll be having Oka muskmelon for dessert tonight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We just went through a doozy. It started last week when David went into Walmart for a tire appointment. He’d ordered two front tires for his car as his were worn out. He waited for an hour and a half, and the guy finally told him they couldn’t find his tires! They issued a refund […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,26,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067"}],"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=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10071,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions\/10071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}