{"id":10525,"date":"2024-07-29T14:05:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10525"},"modified":"2024-07-29T14:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T18:05:30","slug":"will-is-haying-like-mad-now-that-we-have-some-dry-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/07\/29\/will-is-haying-like-mad-now-that-we-have-some-dry-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Will is haying like mad now that we have some dry weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will got so far behind in haying due to all the wet weather we had. Now, he’s working morning to evening, trying to get caught up. (He’s usually done haying in early August. That’s not happening this year. But, despite a few glitches like plugged baler and haybine, it’s getting done. Now, it’s hot and dry. I even have to water the gardens while he’s busy. Wow, after all that rain earlier, who would have thought?<\/p>\n

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Now that it’s dried out, Will’s busy haying.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Those big round bales are starting to add up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I picked all of our big jalape\u00f1os and am getting ready to make a big batch of Cowboy Candy. David was here yesterday, and he put in a request for a jar of Cowboy Candy made out of habaneros for his friend Ian, who loves hot pepper stuff. Just in time, as I do have some nice habaneros out in the garden. You can bet I don’t mix them though! We like hot but not habanero hot. Puff, puff, pant, pant, pass the milk! Just a note, if you’re pickling check the acidity of your vinegar. Mine is 5%, as it’s supposed to be, but some folks have told me they bought vinegar, and it was only 4% acidity. You need 5% for safe pickling.<\/p>\n

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Buffy helped me pick jalape\u00f1os.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hondo and Sarge tangled with a wolf yesterday, early in the morning. We let them out and when they came back after barking like mad, Sarge had bite marks on his thigh and Hondo was limping a little. The bite was way too big for it to have been coyotes. Luckily, the bites weren’t serious, and I washed them out well with peroxide. I hope they got in a few licks themselves! It’s the first time in 20 years one of our dogs has tangled with a wolf or even a coyote. We were shocked and a little nervous.<\/p>\n

The lilies are starting to bloom now, and wow are they gorgeous! I started out with just three bulbs of each, and they have multiplied nicely. Now I have a nice patch and next spring I’ll divide them and have an even larger bed. I love that about some flowers, like our peonies. I let them go to seed and the seeds scatter about. Now I have five or six young peony plants. Because they’re all planted in a fairly small area, I’m sure they’re hybrids, being crossed with who knows what. So, it’ll be fun to see what the blooms look like.<\/p>\n

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My lilies are blooming in full force. Now I have enough to split them up to create a new bed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gotta go make Cowboy Candy. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will got so far behind in haying due to all the wet weather we had. Now, he’s working morning to evening, trying to get caught up. (He’s usually done haying in early August. That’s not happening this year. But, despite a few glitches like plugged baler and haybine, it’s getting done. Now, it’s hot and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,24,8,9,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525"}],"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=10525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10530,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10525\/revisions\/10530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}