{"id":11310,"date":"2025-12-04T11:35:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2025-12-04T11:35:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:35:58","slug":"its-very-cold-outside-so-were-working-indoors-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/12\/04\/its-very-cold-outside-so-were-working-indoors-today\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s very cold outside so we’re working indoors today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will has started a big project in the basement. It started out that he wanted to build more shelves down the center of the basement to stack my cases of canned food that are currently on the floor down there. Yep, I overflowed the “not for food” shelves already. Yes, we do eat our canned food! I just can more than we eat, and I feel that’s a good thing, given the way the economy is lately. Even the dry foods I had stocked up on a few years ago are very welcome. For instance, I needed brown sugar for my pumpkin pies at Thanksgiving. I went down and found a bucket full of bags I’d bought for 99 cents on sale. Now it’s $1.90 on sale. Think of all the savings, not just on this but other foods! We have our own little store down there!<\/p>\n

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Yup, we really needed to do something about the big pile of cases of canned food in the middle of the basement floor!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But when he started, he discovered the pink fiberglass insulation he’d put along the 12-inch sill plate on top of the basement walls had been pretty much destroyed by mice. How the heck they got in there, I don’t know as our basement is pretty tight. And we have two cats and two dogs that hunt mice with abandon. So, he tore out all the insulation (wearing a mask, I might add), stuffed it into bags, which I took to the dump this morning, and is using spray foam on the 2×12-inch sill plate instead.<\/p>\n

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Will pulled out all the nasty pink fiberglass and is cutting insulation board and foaming it over with foam insulation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

While he’s been busy down there, I hit the kitchen, washing up all the dishes that had accumulated over the last few days, including pots and pans. Then I started in shelling sweet corn to fill some bins as our new catalog should be out this week and we’ll see (hopefully!) a surge of orders. I’ve been doing squash and Olinka naked seeded pumpkins as well. The shelves are covered with trays of drying seed. It’s so much fun! Just think of all those plants, come spring.<\/p>\n

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As we shut off the heater in the greenhouse, the entryway is full of piles of squash and pumpkins for me to seed out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our high today was 7 degrees F and the low tonight will probably be -15 or so. We have both the living room wood stove and the wood kitchen range burning merrily today, to warm the house up nice and toasty. It’s such a good, comforting heat! Meanwhile, I’m doing the initial garden planning maps, trying to figure out what to plant and where would be the best place. Yes, in August, we’ll be turning the seed business over to Lynn and Jesse. But we’ll still grow some seeds for them, as they have done for us. Plus, I’ll always have a big garden to can up. Gotta keep those new “for food” shelves full, don’t we? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will has started a big project in the basement. It started out that he wanted to build more shelves down the center of the basement to stack my cases of canned food that are currently on the floor down there. Yep, I overflowed the “not for food” shelves already. Yes, we do eat our canned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310"}],"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=11310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11310\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}