{"id":11341,"date":"2025-12-23T12:41:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11341"},"modified":"2025-12-23T12:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:41:02","slug":"its-cookie-making-time-on-the-homestead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2025\/12\/23\/its-cookie-making-time-on-the-homestead\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s cookie making time on the homestead"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty pumped. This year I actually have a sliver of a few days to bake! Yesterday I made two batches of different cookies, one the Ritz-type crackers, sandwiched with peanut butter and dipped in chocolate almond bark and the others, spritz cookies with sprinkles. I planned on making my Christmas cut-out cookies today but between hauling big round bales to the cows, running to town to the post office, then to the big town of Virginia, time got away from me. However, tomorrow, I’ve got all day set aside for baking.<\/p>\n

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This is what kept me busy yesterday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I want to make my cut-out cookies, which I’ll decorate, plus a couple of loaves of cranberry-nut quick bread and a couple of lemon quick bread. (Of course, the kiddoes always get to take goodies home with them, so I want to make extras.<\/p>\n

Our weather has warmed up to nearly the freezing mark, and the critters and birds are so happy. The bird feeder outside the window was busy all day with various birds. Hairy and Downey woodpeckers, White-breasted nuthatches, Blue Jays and, of course lots of Chickadees were scarfing down black oil sunflower seeds and suet.<\/p>\n

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We enjoy watching our wild neighbors. This little Downy Woodpecker enjoys the suet we put out.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Our chickens sure enjoy the warmer weather and some sunshine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I picked up a few goodies for the birds, wildlife and pets for Christmas. Hey, we’ve all got to celebrate, don’t we? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m pretty pumped. This year I actually have a sliver of a few days to bake! Yesterday I made two batches of different cookies, one the Ritz-type crackers, sandwiched with peanut butter and dipped in chocolate almond bark and the others, spritz cookies with sprinkles. I planned on making my Christmas cut-out cookies today but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,24,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341"}],"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=11341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11346,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions\/11346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}