{"id":11401,"date":"2026-02-02T18:46:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11401"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:46:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:46:42","slug":"grandson-drew-is-up-from-st-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/02\/02\/grandson-drew-is-up-from-st-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Grandson Drew is up from St. Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

He brought a load of his things up to the house David built. David and his family bought a house in Chisholm, a town about 20 miles southwest of us, making it closer to work and having grid-power. Drew loves it up here and is going to stay in David’s house, working on finishing it inside and out instead of, as he insisted, paying rent.<\/p>\n

We were thrilled to have him help us pack seeds on the weekend as we had a bunch. I think I’m not the only one worried about the ever-increasing prices at the grocery store! I know I’m still going to be planting a lot of seeds aimed at food as well as seeds for Lynn and Jesse. We packed seeds until 10:00 on Friday night!<\/p>\n

Today, they went over and turned on some propane heat. (David came over on Saturday to show them how the heaters worked and help get them started.) As it was very cold outside, and the house so well insulated, it was actually colder inside the house than it was outside! Today the house was warmer and soon warmed up nicely as it’s warmer outside, as well. They’re working on getting the wood stove hooked up so it will heat the house instead of Drew buying so much propane. As they didn’t want to run the stovepipe right up through the upstairs bedroom, the pipe is going up outside. However, as there is an overhang to the roof, they’ve got to position the stovepipe away from the side of the house safely, as well as the overhang eaves.<\/p>\n

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Will, getting the stovepipe attached to the elbow and thimble, going out through the wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David helped them get the protective stove mat under the stove and position it where it will sit permanently. Today Drew cleaned out the stove’s ashes and helped Will get the pipe through the wall. With fire safety in mind, they are running double wall pipe everywhere but up from the stove to the elbow, where it goes out through the wall. The pipe will all be screwed together to prevent any accidents. I’ve seen too many structure fires due to poorly installed wood stoves!<\/p>\n

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Will is screwing the sections of stovepipe together for safety.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, I’m busily washing dishes (again!) and getting ready to pack up more seeds before our mail comes. I’ve also been working on diagraming where and what I want to put in the various gardens. I’ve got some great spring wheat for seed, to plant also. It’s going to be a busy spring!<\/p>\n

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Hey guys, are you dreaming “garden” like I am?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

He brought a load of his things up to the house David built. David and his family bought a house in Chisholm, a town about 20 miles southwest of us, making it closer to work and having grid-power. Drew loves it up here and is going to stay in David’s house, working on finishing it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,24,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401"}],"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=11401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11405,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11401\/revisions\/11405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}