{"id":10552,"date":"2024-08-16T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2024-08-16T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T18:48:46","slug":"with-rain-in-the-forecast-we-rushed-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/16\/with-rain-in-the-forecast-we-rushed-around\/","title":{"rendered":"With rain in the forecast, we rushed around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will had a big field of very nice hay down and raked but it was getting on into the afternoon. He had to hurry to beat the rain, which was heading our way. We’re glad to have rain at this point, as it’s been so very dry lately. But not with that much hay down! Luckily, the equipment behaved, and he was able to get it all baled. (Even though the cutter on the baler won’t cut so he has to climb out of the tractor and cut the twines by hand after each bale is finished wrapping!) No wonder he comes home tired, huh?<\/p>\n

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All these bales will feed our cows and other livestock all winter with spare leftover. Just in case…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While he’s haying, I’m trying to pick and get the first of our hundreds of tomatoes seeded out. We’ve found that by picking those very first tomatoes and saving their seeds, we’re gradually getting earlier and earlier crops from the same varieties. In our short-season climate, that’s a huge bonus. Gee, then, after seeding them, we get to eat the rest in various recipes. I can’t can them yet, as there aren’t that many, nor do I have freezer space to freeze them for later. So, darned, we have to just eat them. Tonight, it’s pepper steak, with fresh tomato sauce and green peppers and onions from the garden. Poor us!<\/p>\n

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Our first tomatoes are ripe and I’m busy seeding them out. (And eating them!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As we’re now getting nice, periodic rain, our gardens are looking better. The squash vines are taking off like crazy, as are the pumpkins in the North Garden. We sell them to our friends at The Watering Can, in Cook, Minnesota, and we were all hoping for another nice crop. But, with the drought, after the torrential rains, the vines just sat there, and we weren’t hopeful. Now, we’re looking better, especially if we get a later fall. We’re hoping and praying about that!<\/p>\n

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The rain has even made our plants around the house more beautiful.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Will had a big field of very nice hay down and raked but it was getting on into the afternoon. He had to hurry to beat the rain, which was heading our way. We’re glad to have rain at this point, as it’s been so very dry lately. But not with that much hay down! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,26,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552"}],"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=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10556,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions\/10556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}