{"id":10562,"date":"2024-08-22T15:51:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10562"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:51:34","slug":"things-are-pretty-normal-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/08\/22\/things-are-pretty-normal-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are pretty normal lately"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will’s been having good luck haying and is out today, baling up two nice fields, trying to get it done before it rains this afternoon. We’re not complaining about the rain though, as we do need it for the gardens and pasture. So far, both are doing pretty well, considering the crazy weather we had earlier in the spring \u2014 rain, then no rain! Ugh. But the corn for our seed business is doing pretty darned well, considering the poor gardening year and we have melons set, nice beans (for the most part), wonderful potatoes, and good peppers and tomatoes. Our carrots are so-so. Due to the crazy weather, they seem to be hairy and kind of tough so far. We’ll see how that works out.<\/p>\n

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Will, kicking another nice bale of hay out of the baler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Last night, we had a nice cucumber salad with everything from the garden, sweet corn (not from the garden) and BLTs, our first this year. We ate like hogs! Our friends, Dara and Sherri, came out Tuesday and they picked two big five-gallon buckets of Provider and Dragon Tongue beans. I offered them the beans, but both had already canned up two pickings before that. Dara took a bucket of Providers for her daughter-in-law, and I spent the afternoon on the front porch yesterday, cutting the beans up to can myself, as I’d run out of Dragon Tongues, one of our favorite snap beans. I thought I could get them canned up in the later afternoon, but Will needed me to run to town for gas as he was raking a hayfield and ran out of gas. (Oops!) So, I dropped what I was doing and ran to town, as our bulk fuel barrel was empty and the company, we’d expected to fill it still hasn’t shown up. Then, I had to run him to the last hayfield to pick up his truck and hay transport. Long story, short, I ended up canning those five gallons of beans at night. I finished at 1:30. I was pooped!<\/p>\n

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Aren’t these Dragon Tongue green beans awesome?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ta Da! 28 pints, all sealed and ready to get ready for the pantry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today, he’s baling, and I’ve got to seed out more tomatoes after washing off the 28 pints of beans from last night. Boy are they ever pretty! It’s amazing to me how the purple stripes on the Dragon Tongues turn yellow when cooked or canned. Magic. Gotta run. Tomatoes are calling! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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