{"id":10778,"date":"2025-01-07T20:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10778"},"modified":"2025-01-07T20:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T01:32:10","slug":"our-wolves-were-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/01\/07\/our-wolves-were-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Our wolves were back"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the rest of the family, I think. We saw four young wolves on the beaver pond the morning before last. (You can tell they aren’t adults as their tails haven’t “fluffed” out yet.) They were sniffing around in the grass, looking for mice, voles, or rabbits. They traveled the width of the pond before I could grab my camera. And two escaped into the woods before I could get a shot. We thought it was pretty cool!<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed seeing more wolves on the beaver pond.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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All too soon, they were off down the creek, into the woods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I went to our friend, Ervin Dahlen’s, funeral yesterday. It was -21 degrees F when I left so Will had to stay home and mind the fire. When it’s warmer, we can let it go down to coals. But when it’s that cold, you need to keep it cranking. It’s just a wood stove in the living room and the wood kitchen range, not a furnace or outdoor boiler. Of course it was sad, but I got to see a lot of old neighbors and friends I hadn’t seen for a long time, and that was special.<\/p>\n

I spent the day today packing seeds. As our new catalogs just went out, we’re expecting a flood of seed orders soon. (And we need that as “someone” went out and got a loan for a $60,000 tractor! Not to mention any names\u2026 It’s so cool to look at one tiny tomato seed, realizing it can produce forty pounds of food<\/em>. Astounding!<\/p>\n

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Sarge is our cowdog, livestock protector, and kitty playmate.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m amazed at how well Sarge has learned to work cattle. Who would have thought it was possible? One of our bulls got out today and came up to eat feed in the goat barn. He took him right down to Will, who opened the gate. And in they went, as smooth as can be. I’d love a Belgian Malinois as I love training animals, and they are so very trainable. But, for now, Sarge is my sweetheart! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the rest of the family, I think. We saw four young wolves on the beaver pond the morning before last. (You can tell they aren’t adults as their tails haven’t “fluffed” out yet.) They were sniffing around in the grass, looking for mice, voles, or rabbits. They traveled the width of the pond before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778"}],"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=10778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10782,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10778\/revisions\/10782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}