{"id":10164,"date":"2023-11-09T18:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T23:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10164"},"modified":"2023-11-09T18:05:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T23:05:24","slug":"hey-its-still-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/11\/09\/hey-its-still-raining\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey, it’s still raining"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although we were in drought, weeks of snow and rain sure has made everything soggy around here. Will has been trying to get our big round bales hauled home from the fields and has been having a hard time getting out of the fields with a full hay transport (7 bales) without leaving ruts in the fields. We’re also trying hard to get the rest of the firewood into the shed and stacked but we prefer to have it dry <\/em>when we stack it, not sopping. To combat that, Will dumps a pile from the tractor bucket into the woodshed, lets it dry a few days, then stacks it. We’ll both feel better when the shed is plumb full of firewood. Due to multiple tractor breakdowns during haying, we’re running late this year. I had to laugh at our burro, Crystal, watching Will load firewood onto the wood trailer. It was like she was saying “Lucky I don’t have to do that to stay warm all winter. I just go into the barn.”<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to get the firewood in dry when it’s rained for a week!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crystal watching Will load firewood out in the Wolf Pasture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our friend, Sherri is here today, helping package seeds. Meanwhile, I’ve been cutting up watermelons for their seeds. This morning, I did several Leelanau Sweetglo, our wonderful orange-meated watermelon and I was pleasantly surprised to find the melons still very juicy and sweet. Of course, I called Will and Sherri to come “help” me eat watermelon and save their seeds. Gee, such awful work! Ha ha. Aren’t you jealous?<\/p>\n

David’s leaving for brother Bill’s hunting camp after work tonight. The weekend is supposed to be much drier, and he hopes to get a chance to shoot a nice buck to bring home and process. As the weather’s been so awful, we have only heard one gunshot here. That’s pretty strange. We don’t mind as last winter killed a lot of our deer herd. The snow was record breaking and it lasted much longer in the spring than usual. The poor deer just couldn’t find much to eat and had a hard time even walking through neck-high snow.<\/p>\n

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We’re working daily, trying to clear out the greenhouse. (We’ve still got a ways to go!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re trying to get the greenhouse cleaned out of squash, pumpkins, and melons so we can shut off the heat. But, I’ve got a long <\/em>way to go! Gee, such a problem, having so much food out there\u2026 — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although we were in drought, weeks of snow and rain sure has made everything soggy around here. Will has been trying to get our big round bales hauled home from the fields and has been having a hard time getting out of the fields with a full hay transport (7 bales) without leaving ruts in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,24,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164"}],"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=10164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10168,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10164\/revisions\/10168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}