{"id":11596,"date":"2026-05-18T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11596"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:03:27","slug":"although-there-are-several-bad-wildfires-in-our-county-none-are-close-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/05\/18\/although-there-are-several-bad-wildfires-in-our-county-none-are-close-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Although there are several bad wildfires in our county, none are close to us"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the dry weather and extreme wind lately, there have been several wildfires in our area that are still uncontained for the most part, but not close to us \u2014 yet. We keep watching the sky for smoke, however. We had an enjoyable visit with daughter, Randie, who spent the week with us here. It was fun “touristing’ her around, showing her some of the sights in our wilderness area and next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Yesterday, we went down to watch granddaughter, Ava, in her first horse show where she was entered in hunter\/jumper classes. She did very well, bringing home a blue and three red ribbons. Not bad for a first, eh? We were so proud, especially when Tana, the mare she rode, is not an easy, push-button horse. She likes to go!<\/p>\n

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Randie enjoyed seeing Vermilion Falls, north of us a bit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ava did such a good job at the horse show yesterday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will went to an auction and was able to buy a nice, self-propelled combine for less than $2,000. He had enough money saved up in cash to do the deal. I was sure happy! We won’t be able to harvest wheat this year but he’s going to plant winter wheat in the fall for next year. Getting it home from 40 miles away is another thing. It’s a very long way to drive it! Yesterday, while Randie and I went to the horse show, Will and Drew went to the farm and brought home the header, the big piece that cuts and heads the wheat to thresh and blow in the bin. It weighs 2,000 pounds. But by finagling a bit, they got it on and its home, safe and sound. Tomorrow, our semi-driving friend, Brendan Yoder, will not only haul the combine home but also the big excavator Will bought from a neighbor several weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Although spring is here (frogs and orioles), Will is busy cutting firewood for next winter. Here, we have two seasons, winter and getting ready for winter! It’s hard to think about winter when the cherries and plum trees are blooming. I was tickled to see both Hummingbirds and Orioles this morning. So very pretty, plus the Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are here too, gobbling the grape jelly next to the Orioles.<\/p>\n

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Will, getting ready for next winter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The plums and cherries are in full bloom now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We sure need some rain, not only for our gardens but to cut down on the fire danger. We’re supposed to get some this evening and tomorrow, but we’ve heard that before, only to find it didn’t happen. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the dry weather and extreme wind lately, there have been several wildfires in our area that are still uncontained for the most part, but not close to us \u2014 yet. We keep watching the sky for smoke, however. We had an enjoyable visit with daughter, Randie, who spent the week with us here. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,25,24,9,26,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596"}],"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=11596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11601,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11596\/revisions\/11601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}