{"id":10103,"date":"2023-10-04T15:56:19","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:56:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:56:19","slug":"holy-cow-are-we-rushing-around-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/10\/04\/holy-cow-are-we-rushing-around-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy cow are we rushing around lately!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We saw, on our weather forecast, for Friday night and possibly Saturday night, temperatures in the low 30’s F. Of course, we usually have temperatures of 5 degrees lower than they forecast, so we’re hauling in everything that would possibly be damaged by another freeze. This especially means tomatoes and peppers. And, as we have 96 different varieties of tomatoes, getting them in, seeded and (hopefully) canned up is, as you can imagine, a bit of a challenge. Then, we’ve had hot temperatures, nearly 90 degrees a couple of days, so those tomatoes tend to rot pretty quickly. No pressure there, huh? I am getting a lot canned up, though. Now, it’s mostly tomato sauce, as it’s fast to get in jars and processed.<\/p>\n

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Granddaughter, Delilah, is helping Grandma Karla can spaghetti sauce with this Bill Bean tomato.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re having fun with some of our tomatoes, as the new ones are awesome and some of our old timers are especially wonderful this year. It’s so much fun to see those 3-pound Bill Beans, 1-pound Enormous Plum paste tomatoes and tiny, tiny Mexico Midgets. I do miss our old Lab, Spencer, as he was my tomato tester and always sat next to me on the front porch, snacking on all the tomatoes I would give him pieces of. The only one he spit out was a store tomato someone gave me. Why, I’ll never know, for obvious reasons. Spencer forcefully spit it out then gave me a dirty look. What <\/em>was That?<\/em>, you could see him say.<\/p>\n

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This is the inside of one of our lovely new beefsteak tomatoes, Orange Minsk. They taste wonderful, too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We got all our melons in and nearly all of our corn and squash too. Yesterday, our friends Dara and Sheri came and spent the day picking dry beans. Holy buckets, there were a lot of them! I’ve got buckets, crates, and piles of beans everywhere. And they took crates home to shell also. I didn’t think our beans did that well. A few didn’t but most were awesome, despite the weather this summer. It may not freeze, but fall rains are upon us and we really need to get the beans in when they’re dry.<\/p>\n

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Our Mastiff, Sarge, loves “helping out” during harvest. He thinks he’s protecting us from chipmunks, tigers, and elephants.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will finally finished haying \u2014 sort of. Now, he has to haul home a couple hundred big round bales and one of our tractors with a bale spear has the throwout bearing going in the clutch. So, he can’t leave one tractor home and use one in the field to load hay. Driving one tractor on the hay transport, on the road, is a very slow process. Top speed is 18 mph, downhill. But the hay is all done and now we can concentrate on getting our firewood in the shed. Whew! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We saw, on our weather forecast, for Friday night and possibly Saturday night, temperatures in the low 30’s F. Of course, we usually have temperatures of 5 degrees lower than they forecast, so we’re hauling in everything that would possibly be damaged by another freeze. This especially means tomatoes and peppers. And, as we have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103"}],"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=10103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10108,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10103\/revisions\/10108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}