{"id":10606,"date":"2024-09-16T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2024-09-16T13:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T17:49:42","slug":"i-almost-lost-will-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/09\/16\/i-almost-lost-will-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"I almost lost Will on Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, it was <\/em>Friday the 13th \u2026 He had taken a big round bale out to the cows in the North pasture and had come back though the pipe gate, parked the tractor on the top of the hill by the barn, and went down to close the gate. He even had his earphones on, listening to rock while he worked. Something (I think God!) told him to look back at the tractor. Here it was, rolling down the hill about 20 mph, it seemed! Just in time, he jumped out of the way while it went crashing through the gate, breaking off a 10×10-inch gate post and some plank fencing. Holy cow, we were both shaken badly. (Yeah, he accused me of increasing his life insurance to $5,000,000.) He went down and fixed the gate by driving the tractor over it to flatten out the bend, fixed the post and fence and came home for an ice cream. Whew, we don’t need that type of excitement!<\/p>\n

Canning is in full swing. Yesterday, I did 12 pints of salsa\/tomato sauce, 24 half-pints of cowboy candy, 8 pints of vaquero relish with pineapple (we’ll see how that tastes) and five pints of extra cowboy candy syrup. We’ve got tons of Sugar Rush Peach hot peppers in the hoop house and lots of others, both hot and sweet so I’ll be making tons of various pepper recipes. There are lots more tomatoes out on the porch, waiting for me to seed and can up. Now if I were just triplets! Oh well, I’ll get it done. I’m hoping to get to can some sweet corn on Wednesday, as it’s almost mature enough.<\/p>\n

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This is the first batch I did yesterday. I was still canning at 10 o’clock!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David and Delilah came over on Saturday to pick their pumpkins. Our friends from The Watering Can greenhouse in Cook, Minnesota, were coming on Sunday to pick their truckload of pumpkins so I wanted to make sure the grandkids got their pick first. Delilah ran into the North Garden and squealed “Pumpkins! Pumpkins!” and ran toward the pumpkin rows excitedly. She picked out their pumpkins and Dad cut them for her. We took a ride on the golf cart to their house and unloaded her haul. It was lots of fun.<\/p>\n

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Delilah picked out the best pumpkins of the whole patch to take home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, on Sunday, Mark and Dianne, and her mom, plus Justin, Gina, and their little girl came over and we went down to pick pumpkins in earnest. They got a truckload and there are still more pumpkins that need a little more maturity. I just wanted everyone to get their pumpkins before the darned cows decided to break in and get theirs. (They don’t leave any<\/em>!) Everyone loves pumpkins. Me included!<\/p>\n

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We all had fun picking pumpkins on Sunday. Here’s the crew from The Watering Can greenhouse in Cook, Minnesota.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gina and her daughter resting up after picking pumpkins. We always love this event at our homestead!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Okay, it was Friday the 13th \u2026 He had taken a big round bale out to the cows in the North pasture and had come back though the pipe gate, parked the tractor on the top of the hill by the barn, and went down to close the gate. He even had his earphones on, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,8,26,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606"}],"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=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10611,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/10611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}