{"id":10169,"date":"2023-11-13T17:56:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10169"},"modified":"2023-11-13T17:56:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T22:56:27","slug":"the-sun-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/11\/13\/the-sun-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The sun is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray! Sunshine! It seems forever since we’ve seen it. And, living off grid, having long periods of cloudy weather means it’s generator time when I want to wash clothes. Yep, I put it off, put it off, then couldn’t stand it anymore. So, I cranked up the generator and started washing clothes. Then <\/em>the sun came out. Oh well, I’m still washing clothes today, but should get them finished. My new dryer is so <\/em>very slow, compared to my old one that I got very used from my wonderful son, Bill, and used it for more than 14 years before it totally crashed.<\/p>\n

I canned up a bunch of ham dices from a ham I got on sale, then decided to can up some quarts of old Navy beans I had in the basement. So, right now, I have 8 quarts in the canner, coming down to zero pressure. And I’ve boiled that ham bone for a couple of hours, planning on using the broth and a few quarts of soaked Navies to make a batch of bean soup to also can. It’s amazing how many meals I can get out of one on-sale ham! It makes my frugal soul sing.<\/p>\n

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Even though it’s a beautiful day, I’m staying in to get some canning done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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These half-pints of diced ham come in handy for tons of recipes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will went out and brought in another big trailer load of firewood logs and poles to cut up and split as needed. I’m hoping that on Wednesday, we can get that split and get the fruit trees protected from voles by wrapping their trunks in screen, hardware cloth, or plastic tree protectors. Voles look like they’re very plentiful this year.<\/p>\n

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Sarge is waiting for Hondo to come see the pile of wood “Dad” brought home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last few days, Will has been repairing the plank fencing in the cow’s winter yard and also repairing the run-in shed for the horses and cows. (When we get a bad storm, they all come into the training ring where they can get completely in a barn for better shelter. Most of the material has been home-sawn and recycled lumber and OSB that David saved from the big Dumpster bins at work. While he’s doing that and I’m canning, I am just finishing up the mailing list for the seed business. We’re going to get catalogs out early this year. For some reason \u2014 maybe the world situation \u2014 we feel folks really need to get at gardening this year. That’s also probably why I’m canning so much food right now!<\/p>\n

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Will has been busy repairing plank cow yard fence and updating the run-in shed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Hooray! Sunshine! It seems forever since we’ve seen it. And, living off grid, having long periods of cloudy weather means it’s generator time when I want to wash clothes. Yep, I put it off, put it off, then couldn’t stand it anymore. So, I cranked up the generator and started washing clothes. Then the sun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169"}],"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=10169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10174,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10169\/revisions\/10174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}