{"id":11366,"date":"2026-01-05T22:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11366"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:14:44","slug":"did-you-ever-have-one-of-those-days-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/01\/05\/did-you-ever-have-one-of-those-days-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you ever have “one of those days?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

We did, today! Will had made an appointment to get our car in for front brakes on Wednesday. His grandson, Drew, who had wanted to move up here, away from the cities, just lost his job welding in St. Paul. So we invited him up to stay with us until the weather moderated enough so that he could work on making David’s empty house livable. We were all cozied down, saying how nice everything was calm, after the bustle of the holidays. Um Hum…<\/p>\n

Then Will got a call from his daughter in Illinois. She has a serious plumbing problem that a plumber quoted $8,000 to fix, which she doesn’t have. Dad! Yep, Will is going to drive down to help her out as soon as he can. He wants to get the car back first, so I have wheels as he’s taking his big red diesel truck. It has a lot fewer miles than our Edge, which has over 230,000 miles on it so far. I told him to just go and I’d drive it with grinding brakes and just not use them much. He declined that.<\/p>\n

I tried to find him a cheap flight, but “cheap” amounted to over $500, round trip. He can drive it for less than half of that in a long day.<\/p>\n

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I just thought I’d toss in a couple of photos to encourage all of you. Yes, gardening is coming again!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then, when Randie went home, I drove her to son, Bill’s, and he was getting sick, coughing. He was going to drive her two hours, most of it in the dark, in traffic, alone coming back. I didn’t think that was a good idea, so I went with them, instead of driving right home. The trip went well, and I started home around 7:30 P.M. As I was hungry, I swung in Taco Bell and grabbed a beef chalupa, which I love, and headed home. Oh oh! It did taste a little funny. Yep, I got close and personal to several toilets in the next 12 hours. Not fun!<\/p>\n

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I can just envision another bucket load of Aker’s Plum tomatoes! Yum!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, instead of organizing my new pantry shelves, I’m helping Will get ready for a road trip. We’ve got to haul several big round bales into the cow yard, move the cows back out there, as the weather has moderated, get the truck packed and ready to go. He’ll be gone, maybe a week and I don’t drive the big Kubota as I can’t get up in it yet. If it snows bad, I can plow the driveway though!<\/p>\n

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Jenna and Sarge, who sits on your lap or couch like a person.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It just goes to show you; you can make all the plans you want and that doesn’t make them come about as you planned! Being flexible is a key attribute of a homesteader. And we’ve had a lot of practice at being flexible! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We did, today! Will had made an appointment to get our car in for front brakes on Wednesday. His grandson, Drew, who had wanted to move up here, away from the cities, just lost his job welding in St. Paul. So we invited him up to stay with us until the weather moderated enough so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366"}],"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=11366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11370,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11366\/revisions\/11370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}