{"id":10243,"date":"2024-01-02T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10243"},"modified":"2024-01-02T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T20:36:42","slug":"we-had-a-quiet-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/01\/02\/we-had-a-quiet-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a quiet, happy New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where most folks went out partying, we just stayed home and enjoyed the fire in the wood stove. No, we sure didn’t stay up until midnight to watch the ball drop. Hey, we’re homesteaders, more concerned with plotting out our next year’s gardens and finishing canning up the ham and bean soup.<\/p>\n

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We both love our ham and bean soup, so I make sure we have plenty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m getting ready for my next knee replacement surgery on the 9th. You know, preparedness includes more than what if the world \u2014 as we know it \u2014 comes to an end. For us, preparedness means getting as prepared as humanly possible for the foreseeable future. For us, that not only means having plenty of food stocked up, a way to get water, staying warm without electricity, having a medical supply in storage, but it also means getting the garden ready now (not waiting for spring to plan) and doing what is possible to be ready for the inevitable down-time after my surgery, when I can’t do much.<\/p>\n

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I am already plotting out our five gardens, figuring out how to get the most harvest out of each one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, I’ve been doing extra “meals-in-a-jar” canning (Will won’t have to cook, just heat stuff up.), printing out extra labels for the seed packages, and packing even more seeds for our seed business. I’ve done the laundry, cleaned up the house as much as I can while doing other things, going to haul the Christmas tree out early, and stocking up on things like animal grain, chicken feed, and dog and cat food. Hopefully this will lessen the burden on Will after I have my surgery and lessen my frustration and worry, as well.<\/p>\n

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I can’t wait until I’m back in the garden, checking out growing crops!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hope all of you have a very Happy New Year. Make a resolution to grow more food and can it up! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Where most folks went out partying, we just stayed home and enjoyed the fire in the wood stove. No, we sure didn’t stay up until midnight to watch the ball drop. Hey, we’re homesteaders, more concerned with plotting out our next year’s gardens and finishing canning up the ham and bean soup. I’m getting ready […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8,10,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243"}],"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=10243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10247,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions\/10247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}