{"id":10342,"date":"2024-03-28T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T20:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10342"},"modified":"2024-03-28T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T20:26:12","slug":"it-has-been-a-roller-coaster-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/03\/28\/it-has-been-a-roller-coaster-ride\/","title":{"rendered":"It has been a roller coaster ride"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had been praying for our injured friend hard. But a couple of days ago, we were told he had passed away due to the severity of his injuries. We are so sad and can’t quit thinking of his family and how hard it is for them. After losing my late husband, Bob, suddenly, to a brain bleed, I know just how much they are hurting.<\/p>\n

We were due snow and this time it came by the inches per hour. We ended up with 18 inches on the flat. Will waited until the three-day storm had passed and started the plow truck and began plowing out our mile-plus long driveway. He made a pass in and out, up to David’s drive, then a tire blew out! He was able to limp home but could plow no more. Our yard had not been plowed yet. So, he went down to the barn and got the Kubota, which has four-wheel drive and a bucket. He started clearing with that. Then he disappeared. Half an hour later, here he was with a big plow blade chained to the Kubota’s bucket! It was something he’d picked up at a farm auction for $20, thinking it was too good to go to scrap. Well, that blade did miracles! In minutes, the yard was cleaned as well as our lower part of the driveway. Yea Will!<\/p>\n

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Will started out using the Kubota’s bucket to remove snow from our yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Then he switched to the “junk” snowplow blade, which worked much faster!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My tomato seeds all popped up within 3 days! Holy cow were they happy little guys! Amazing.<\/p>\n

Today, our friends Dara and Sherri are here, and Sherri brought me a really cool lid lifter to remove the lids from many size jars, including canning jars. She knows I pry the lids off with my fingernails, often breaking them, sometimes painfully, in order to save the lids from dents in the rim. (Yes, I save them for emergency uses.) That lid lifter pulls the lid up with no effort (or broken nails!) and leaves them in pristine shape. Here’s the link on Amazon<\/a>, where she got them. I had never seen one like that before! Very cool!<\/p>\n

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Here’s my new lid lifter from Amazon, on sale for less than $20.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the box so you can see the name, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We had been praying for our injured friend hard. But a couple of days ago, we were told he had passed away due to the severity of his injuries. We are so sad and can’t quit thinking of his family and how hard it is for them. After losing my late husband, Bob, suddenly, to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342"}],"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=10342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10347,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10342\/revisions\/10347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}