{"id":11198,"date":"2025-09-29T17:59:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11198"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:59:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:59:46","slug":"with-the-world-in-chaos-were-so-peaceful-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/09\/29\/with-the-world-in-chaos-were-so-peaceful-here\/","title":{"rendered":"With the world in chaos, we’re so peaceful here"},"content":{"rendered":"

We know we can’t do anything about horrible mass killings, wars, hate, and divisiveness. We do know we can be grateful for what we have on our homestead, day by day.<\/p>\n

Beautiful fall weather continues, bringing not only gorgeous colors of maples and aspen, but the fragrance of fallen leaves and fresh air. I took Jenna, our daughter, for a short tour a little north of us. We went to Vermilion Falls and were awed at the thundering water, coursing through the narrow rock gorge, then on to the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness to look for moose and visit a few pretty lakes. It was a fun day!<\/p>\n

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We love Vermilion Falls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jenna and I loved the peace of the lakes on the BWCA’s edge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, Sunday brought an end to her visit, and she headed home to Illinois and called to say she made it home safely. I’m sure Gus, her Carpathian Shepherd, was very happy to have Mommy home again. (They are a big, beautiful dog, the size of our English Mastiff.) Sarge and Hondo will miss her petting too, I’m sure. I know Will and I will sure miss her a lot.<\/p>\n

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Jenna and Dad enjoyed their visit!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I’m picking and shelling more beans. I’ve got to tell you how thrilled we are with a pole green bean, Brita’s Footlong. These beans handled our horrible weather wonderfully, putting on tons of bunches of very long, sweet green beans. The dry beans I’m shelling today are pure white and can easily substitute for Great Northern beans like you buy at the store. But they grow much nicer in the homestead garden than them. They will always have a place in our garden!<\/p>\n

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These are Brita’s Footlong green beans, all dried down. There are hundreds and they’ve already been picked once! Amazing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

We know we can’t do anything about horrible mass killings, wars, hate, and divisiveness. We do know we can be grateful for what we have on our homestead, day by day. Beautiful fall weather continues, bringing not only gorgeous colors of maples and aspen, but the fragrance of fallen leaves and fresh air. I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,24,9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198"}],"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=11198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11203,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11198\/revisions\/11203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}