{"id":11425,"date":"2026-02-16T12:24:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:24:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:24:57","slug":"who-would-have-thought-it-would-be-45-degrees-f-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/02\/16\/who-would-have-thought-it-would-be-45-degrees-f-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Who would have thought it would be 45 degrees F in February?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We sure wouldn’t have bet on it. But boy that’s a huge blessing right now. Will and Drew finished up getting the wood stove installed and lit a fire in it. Ta da! It drew fine and soon had a nice blaze going, warming up the house. Because David really insulated the house when he built it, the inside of the house was way colder than outside! A nice fire soon took care of that. They got the lithium-ion batteries Drew bought installed along with the inverter and charger. Unfortunately, the generator, which we’d bought from David, had sat for two years. They started it with no trouble. Then it died and they couldn’t get it going again. Today they’re working on it, hoping it doesn’t need to go to the shop. Lights in the house are nice at night.<\/p>\n

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The first fire in Drew’s wood stove was a success.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, besides packing seeds, I managed to get two flats of pepper seeds planted and are now starting behind the wood stove where it’s nice and toasty. Peppers need very warm temperatures to germinate quickly.<\/p>\n

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I now have two flats of peppers planted and another one is going to happen today. We love our peppers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I also found some Marrowfat beans I hadn’t remembered harvesting. Before offering them on the website, as it is too late for the catalog, I tested them for germination. They had been behind the wood stove, in a washcloth, dampened with warm water and put in a bowl, in a plastic bag to hold in the moisture. They’d been in for a week. Two days previous, I checked them and many were starting to germinate. Yesterday, I took off the bag and holy cow, the washcloth was humped up in the middle. I lifted it off and those beans had not only germinated but gone wild. They had all germinated but two out of 20 and were six inches tall with roots you wouldn’t believe. Yep, I guess those seeds are good!<\/p>\n

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I was amazed at the Marrowfat beans I germinated this last week. Needless to say, they passed!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In this spell of sunny, warm weather, son, Bill and granddaughter, Ava, took their horses over to the stable where Ava takes lessons and works, to ride in the outdoor arena. Bill hadn’t been on Abe, the Friesian our daughter, Randie had given them, since late fall. He went just fine and looked good from the photos Bill sent me. Yea! The two of those riders will have a lot of fun with their horses this summer. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We sure wouldn’t have bet on it. But boy that’s a huge blessing right now. Will and Drew finished up getting the wood stove installed and lit a fire in it. Ta da! It drew fine and soon had a nice blaze going, warming up the house. Because David really insulated the house when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425"}],"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=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11429,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions\/11429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}