{"id":10129,"date":"2023-10-19T17:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10129"},"modified":"2023-10-19T17:45:22","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T21:45:22","slug":"were-still-plugging-along-but-the-new-baby-sure-helps-liven-us-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/10\/19\/were-still-plugging-along-but-the-new-baby-sure-helps-liven-us-up\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re still plugging along but the new baby sure helps liven us up"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went to the hospital on Tuesday, to see David’s new baby, Melanie. I didn’t want to bother Elizabeth on Monday, right after she had a cesarean delivery. I got to cuddle and feed that tiny bundle of joy. I felt so blessed! They brought her home yesterday and all is going well, although Melanie kept David busy all night. She wanted a bottle, to be changed, and cuddled every two hours (or less). Now, she’s sleeping for four hours straight. Ha ha on Dad!<\/p>\n

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I got to hold precious Melanie in the hospital.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m busy shelling out more beans, picking a few stray beans that are still in the garden, shucking the last of the corn, and pulling some watermelons out of the greenhouse to seed. In a few days, the high <\/em>will be in the thirties, so winter’s coming. Will found that a part on our remaining tractor with a front-end loader’s axle is broken. Today, he is getting the wheel off and the part ready to weld. He hopes he can weld it. Some things just don’t take a weld well, but, we’re hoping. Our Ford 660 won’t lift the round bales; they’re too heavy. Neither will the Kubota. Our Oliver is needing a big overhaul, so it’s also laid up. It never rains but it pours. Will did pick up a new-to-us big round baler at an auction. Our old baler broke down six times this summer and it wore him out repairing it. He ran the new baler through its paces, and it seems to be a nice baler with very low hours.<\/p>\n

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I just shelled out the last of our fantastic Hondo beans, named in honor of our invaluable dog, Hondo, due to their unique, varied coloration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, I’m going out to seed out the last of our tomatoes. We sure had a great crop this year, despite crazy weather and no watering in the Wolf Garden. It’ll be good to be done with something! Maybe I’ll sneak over for a while to snuggle Melanie when I’m done.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t she a little doll?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

I went to the hospital on Tuesday, to see David’s new baby, Melanie. I didn’t want to bother Elizabeth on Monday, right after she had a cesarean delivery. I got to cuddle and feed that tiny bundle of joy. I felt so blessed! They brought her home yesterday and all is going well, although Melanie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10130,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129"}],"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=10129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10133,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10129\/revisions\/10133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}