{"id":10110,"date":"2023-10-10T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10110"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:15:40","slug":"we-finally-had-our-big-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/10\/10\/we-finally-had-our-big-freeze\/","title":{"rendered":"We finally had our big freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday night, it dropped down to 27 degrees F. A clear sky made it inevitable. Bummer! Luckily, we had already rushed around and gotten all of our frost-sensitive garden produce inside. Will took the Kubota around to the pumpkin patches in the North and Main Gardens, filling the bucket, over and over with pumpkins. Fortunately, our friend, Heather, and two of her kids stopped by to pick up the giant pumpkin I’d promised Providence, so, besides picking up that one, they helped out picking all of the smaller pumpkins too. Boy, that was a huge help! You know the old saying “many hands makes light work?” It is so very true! Especially when you’re staring down a cold, freezing night!<\/p>\n

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Our friend, Heather, brought two of her kids out to the pumpkin patch. Of course, they took home quite a few \u2014 they’re addicting!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After working at all the gardens, we got a phone call from our son, David, saying we were invited to join them for a bonfire at his house. As the afternoon was already getting chilly, we thought that was a great idea. We drove the golf cart over to the neighbors and enjoyed a nice visit. Grandpa Will had fun doing alphabets with Delilah on a piece of thrown away sheetrock and carpenter’s pencil. Then I took her and Dad for a short ride in the golf cart. Delilah wanted me to run through every single mud puddle on the driveway. After all, mud puddles are made for kids, right?<\/p>\n

Now, we have plants and vegetables all through the house, with scarcely room to walk. Luckily, we also have the greenhouse packed full, too. So, that’s a whole lot of stuff that’s not <\/em>in the house. We are, truly, grateful for all the harvest, despite the spell of unending rain, followed by drought. The corn is wonderful. We have lots of ears of Glass Gem popcorn that are over 10 inches long and so <\/em>very beautiful. The various varieties of sweet corn are drying down nicely<\/p>\n

I have to laugh; Mittens and Buffy, our cats, now “kind of” get along. They just glare at each other but can actually walk a few feet apart without a fight.<\/p>\n

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Mittens and Buffy glare at each other but don’t fight any more.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve still got root crops in the ground to harvest but we have firewood to get in first, as we’re behind in that due to all the breakdowns Will had with haying equipment. But the woodshed is getting full, and he has piles in front of the two old pig sheds. We’re getting there! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday night, it dropped down to 27 degrees F. A clear sky made it inevitable. Bummer! Luckily, we had already rushed around and gotten all of our frost-sensitive garden produce inside. Will took the Kubota around to the pumpkin patches in the North and Main Gardens, filling the bucket, over and over with pumpkins. Fortunately, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,8,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110"}],"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=10110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10114,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10110\/revisions\/10114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}