{"id":10794,"date":"2025-01-20T19:36:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10794"},"modified":"2025-01-20T19:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T00:36:28","slug":"were-in-the-icebox-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/01\/20\/were-in-the-icebox-now\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re in the icebox now"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s reason homestead-minded folks seldom consider moving to Northern Minnesota. Yep, we’ve got lots of lakes, rivers, and government land, both State and Federal. Lots of wildlife and woods. But unfortunately, we have a very famous tough winter. Last night it was -40 at our place, with a little wind. We kept both the living room and kitchen wood stoves going all night. Mittens glared at Will from her wheelbarrow when he told her to get out because it was so cold outside. She wouldn’t get out. But, boy, did she ever show up at the window with the bird feeder tray in record time, even for her. (She thinks it’s her private door. She hops up there and pretty soon I notice her and slide the window open so she can get in.) The deer come pretty quick when we call them for feed. I’m sure they use up the calories when it’s this cold!<\/p>\n

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This is Mittens’ not-happy face.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will and “our” deer herd. More are still coming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We saw one of the young wolves out on the beaver pond this morning. He was burying something, probably a bone, in the long grass and snow. Then he trotted away down the creek. That was exciting but last week, we saw not only all four young wolves but their parents and another adult wolf, making seven at once. It was almost dark so I couldn’t get any pictures. Pretty cool! We did call the dogs back home the next morning as they were out there, peeing on the “signpost,” a dead stump sticking out of the ice. I think every male wolf peed on it! The dogs were also signing in.<\/p>\n

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We watched this young wolf trot across the pond and bury something in the grass.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been busy packing seeds. As you can guess, after our seed catalog came out, a lot of orders have started coming in. I want to make sure we have lots already packaged so picking orders is faster and easier. I’m trying to get ahead as my TAVR heart valve procedure is on Wednesday. I don’t know why I thought it was Thursday. I went for my labs today, luckily in Virginia (the town, not state). I’m hoping all goes well so I can quickly get back to things.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the war table, where I package seeds. Notice the wheelbarrow full of firewood behind my chair! It was -40 last night!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I hope everyone plants a big garden this year, so they not only have enough for their own family but some to share with friends, neighbors, and relatives. I know I plan on doing just that, including a big wheat patch. I feel unsettled about a lot of world things. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s reason homestead-minded folks seldom consider moving to Northern Minnesota. Yep, we’ve got lots of lakes, rivers, and government land, both State and Federal. Lots of wildlife and woods. But unfortunately, we have a very famous tough winter. Last night it was -40 at our place, with a little wind. We kept both the living […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794"}],"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=10794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10799,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10794\/revisions\/10799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}