{"id":10201,"date":"2023-12-04T18:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10201"},"modified":"2023-12-04T18:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T23:04:40","slug":"we-spent-sunday-at-grandson-masons-birthday-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2023\/12\/04\/we-spent-sunday-at-grandson-masons-birthday-party\/","title":{"rendered":"We spent Sunday at grandson Mason’s birthday party"},"content":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t seem possible that our grandson, Mason, is now 16 years old! It seems like yesterday when he was just a little kid, wanting to ride on Uncle David’s shoulders for a tour of the homestead, stopping to skip rocks in our pond and building snow forts. Holy cow, now he’s about to get his driver’s license and is building robots and computers. We had to laugh, now he’s a big guy, he doesn’t ride on David’s shoulders but has to lift granddaughter, Delilah up over his head for “rides.”<\/p>\n

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Instead of riding on Uncle David’s shoulders, Mason gets to hold Delilah WAY UP, Over and over again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the weather has been cooperative, Will is busy as a beaver, hauling more and more round bales home, hopefully before snow comes, making it hard for the pickup to haul the loaded hay transport off the fields. Even with four-wheel drive, that’s a big load to start rolling on slippery snow. We are pleased and relieved to find we have more than enough hay to last the winter. Some winters, it’s been pretty darned close; so close we had to start feeding some square bales and count the remaining round bales. Whew! We’re so grateful.<\/p>\n

I’m again busy seeding out the very last of the watermelons and more squash. It seems like we have tons more seed this year. And, if the world situation continues to deteriorate, that will be a good thing, I think. Tomorrow, I’m going down into the pantry to stock the shelves. Right now, I’ve got piles of boxes of home canned foods, piled up high on the floor. (I’d had Will and David carry the boxes down there as with my bad knees, I didn’t dare.) Now I have to play catch-up and get them put in their right spots. I’m also thinking some of Will’s “not for food” shelves will be repurposed from boxes of junk to rows and rows of, yep, food!<\/p>\n

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My poor pantry needs me to restock it from piles of boxes on the floor, all over the basement!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2014 Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It doesn’t seem possible that our grandson, Mason, is now 16 years old! It seems like yesterday when he was just a little kid, wanting to ride on Uncle David’s shoulders for a tour of the homestead, stopping to skip rocks in our pond and building snow forts. Holy cow, now he’s about to get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201"}],"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=10201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10204,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10201\/revisions\/10204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}