{"id":10735,"date":"2024-12-10T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10735"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:31:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:31:58","slug":"were-definitely-having-a-white-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/12\/10\/were-definitely-having-a-white-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re definitely having a white Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

A big snowstorm hit us on Sunday, dropping 8 inches of heavy snow. It knocked down a few smaller trees on our driveway and covered our solar panels and internet satellite dish on the roof. We had to run our generator during and just after the snowfall, when we needed to, but we had no internet as it involves someone climbing out the upstairs bedroom window and walking across the porch roof to sweep off the dish. Not something you want to do when it’s snowing heavily!<\/p>\n

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We got over 8 inches of wet snow during 24 hours that covered everything.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will got the old plow truck running, as it hadn’t even been started since early last spring. He took off, plowing the mile and a half driveway while I finished washing off the pints of hominy I had canned. He didn’t come back. But I figured he was just making several passes in and out from David’s driveway to the road. Finally, here he comes, walking! Oh oh. Yep, the truck had died, shoving up a bank of heavy, wet snow. And the battery was not strong enough to restart the truck. Hey, his doctor said to get more exercise, right?<\/p>\n

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Will got busy and saddled up our old plow truck to plow our driveway.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We drove the car out and he jumped the battery. The plowing went fine after that. Now it’s just making paths to the chicken coop etc. He got the satellite dish swept off this morning, so I could do my blog. I got the chickens fed and watered and we’re pretty much back to normal.<\/p>\n

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While Will was plowing, I washed off my pints of hominy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s lucky we got the cows and horses all hayed as we knew we were about to get a storm. Now it’s supposed to get cold, with a high of below zero, with wind. You don’t even want to know the windchill temperatures. Getting in lots of firewood today, for sure! \u2014 Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A big snowstorm hit us on Sunday, dropping 8 inches of heavy snow. It knocked down a few smaller trees on our driveway and covered our solar panels and internet satellite dish on the roof. We had to run our generator during and just after the snowfall, when we needed to, but we had no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735"}],"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=10735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10739,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10735\/revisions\/10739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}