{"id":10176,"date":"2023-11-16T16:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:03:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:03:15","slug":"its-amazing-what-you-can-get-done-with-a-few-nice-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/11\/16\/its-amazing-what-you-can-get-done-with-a-few-nice-days\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s amazing what you can get done with a few nice days"},"content":{"rendered":"

After feeling pressured from being so behind in a lot of things, with these warm, sunny days, so unusual for northern Minnesota, we’re finally getting caught up. Whew! That feels so much better. Yesterday, we got a big bunch of firewood cut up and split \u2014 piles and piles! We were waiting for a dry day following dry days so the wood could go in the woodshed, nice and dry. Now it’s inside, in a big heap, ready to stack up neatly. We’ve found that the Kubota fits right into the woodshed so wood can be dumped right inside, instead of outside, like when we used the Ford 660. That’s a huge plus, in that the pile won’t get wet or snowed on as it waits to be stacked.<\/p>\n

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This is the pile of firewood Will cut up and we split yesterday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve got to share a tip we’ve learned. A year ago, we bought a DeWalt chainsaw, figuring if the world goes to heck, we can still saw firewood as it’s battery powered, and we can charge batteries with our solar panels. We were a bit unsure as to how well it would cut. But my son, Bill, has one and said it works great. (He’s pretty picky about stuff like that!) He was right. And no pulling to start it or gas to fill. While Will still uses the Stihl much of the time, that DeWalt chainsaw gets plenty of use too.<\/p>\n

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Here’s our wonderful DeWalt battery-powered chainsaw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Earlier, I’d gotten busy and canned up some beans in quarts and a bunch of bean and ham soup, in pints. I had a little left over in the pot, so we had that for dinner. It was pretty darned good! I’m so happy to add that to the pantry. I got a call yesterday from our credit union. Oh oh, I thought. What’s wrong now? Hackers? Nope. I’d won a turkey through their Thanksgiving drawing! Wow, was I surprised! So, today, I picked up my turkey when I went to town to mail seeds. I guess I’ll can that up too, when I do the leftover turkey after our Thanksgiving dinner.<\/p>\n

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These quarts of canned dry beans let me whip up a pan of baked beans in a very short time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This bean and ham soup sure tastes great on a cold day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

After feeling pressured from being so behind in a lot of things, with these warm, sunny days, so unusual for northern Minnesota, we’re finally getting caught up. Whew! That feels so much better. Yesterday, we got a big bunch of firewood cut up and split \u2014 piles and piles! We were waiting for a dry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,8,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176"}],"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=10176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10181,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10176\/revisions\/10181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}