{"id":10723,"date":"2024-12-02T18:25:16","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2024-12-02T18:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:25:16","slug":"ive-been-busy-playing-catch-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/12\/02\/ive-been-busy-playing-catch-up\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve been busy playing catch up"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I still haven’t gotten my leftover turkey and broth canned up. But I did get the celery done. Yea! Then I spent two afternoons down in the basement pantry, putting away and arranging cases and cases of canned goods that I’d had Will carry down for me, due to my still-sore knees. I was amazed at just how many cases there were \u2026 and still are, down there. I hadn’t realized I’d been so busy! I also had a few jars, through the months and even years that had failed seals or mystery yucky stuff in them. Hey, I haven’t cleaned out the pantry in quite a while and there are thousands of jars down there.<\/p>\n

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I finally got my celery canned up. It’s so very handy!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I spent the last two days putting “Packed for 2025” labels on seed envelopes that the “girls” had packed this fall. We make every single effort to keep our prices as low as possible, including putting these labels over the “packed for 2024” that had been printed on the envelopes by the company we buy them from. Yep, instead of throwing these boxes of envelopes away and buying new ones with the correct date on them, we print out labels and put them over the old date. Believe it or not, it saves us hundreds of dollars that can be passed on to our loyal customers. Waste not, want not applies to every aspect of our lives!<\/p>\n

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Mittens, “helping” Will bring in firewood. He can’t do it without her!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been really cold this week, with some more snow falling. We’ve been using plenty of firewood, which Will hauls in by the wheelbarrow load. I have to laugh as our cat, Mittens, insists on having a ride out to the woodshed and back in the wheelbarrow. Every time, she hops right in the empty wheelbarrow and stares at Will. And out they go! When the wheelbarrow is full, she either rides it back into the kitchen or hops off and follows Will into the house. (I think she’s seen over-full loads dump out on the ground and thinks that might be dangerous.<\/p>\n

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Will and Mittens bring in a wheelbarrow load of wood every day for our kitchen and living room stoves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

No, I still haven’t gotten my leftover turkey and broth canned up. But I did get the celery done. Yea! Then I spent two afternoons down in the basement pantry, putting away and arranging cases and cases of canned goods that I’d had Will carry down for me, due to my still-sore knees. I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723"}],"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=10723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10727,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10723\/revisions\/10727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}