{"id":10935,"date":"2025-04-28T20:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10935"},"modified":"2025-04-28T20:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T00:51:09","slug":"the-meat-canning-is-finally-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/04\/28\/the-meat-canning-is-finally-done\/","title":{"rendered":"The meat canning is finally done"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we were kind of taking a rest after working so hard yesterday and the day before. Will had been readying the gardens for applying manure and tilling while I was busy canning up dozens of jars of the older beef and chicken from the freezer. And it’s been raining heavily since early this morning. We have almost 2 inches already and no sign of it stopping. We did need the moisture to keep the fire danger low and to get our beaver ponds filled up nicely.<\/p>\n

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Will has been busy in the Wolf Garden, pulling tomato cages, stakes, and bean trellises.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was happy with the canning as I only had two jars that didn’t seal, one was dog food chicken breast, and the other was ground beef. I heated up that jar of ground beef and we had a nice meal of tacos last night and the dogs were happy with the addition of chicken to their kibble this morning.<\/p>\n

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My canning of the older meat is finished.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We ended up with dozens of boxes of canned meats!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had been to town to mail some seed packages to customers and after we got back a knock at the door and barking dogs announced a visitor. It was Jeff from the Dept. of Agriculture, here to get seeds for a germination test. For months and even years, we’d been kind of expecting a black helicopter with black-Opp guys, rappelling down with big guns. Jeff was just a regular nice guy in civilian clothes. No big guns. We had a nice visit and he collected some seeds and information. Whew, we were glad our nightmare hadn’t come to light! He said he’d like to come see our gardens with his wife this summer and we said we’d be glad to have them.<\/p>\n

I’m almost done transplanting tomatoes and should finish tomorrow. Then, it won’t be long before I’m starting melons, brassicas, squash, and pumpkins inside. They’ll have to go out to the deck when they’ve grown some as there is absolutely no room in the greenhouse!<\/p>\n

This rain is greening up the grass and the tree buds are swelling. Lots of our flowers are coming up. Now I hope we don’t get more snow!<\/p>\n

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The tree buds, like these pussy willows, are budding out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Today, we were kind of taking a rest after working so hard yesterday and the day before. Will had been readying the gardens for applying manure and tilling while I was busy canning up dozens of jars of the older beef and chicken from the freezer. And it’s been raining heavily since early this morning. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,11,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935"}],"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=10935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10941,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10935\/revisions\/10941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}