{"id":11602,"date":"2026-05-20T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11602"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:53:25","slug":"no-we-didnt-get-the-freeze-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/05\/20\/no-we-didnt-get-the-freeze-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"No, we didn’t get the freeze last night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our plum and cherry trees are safe, at least for now as we didn’t get the 28 degrees with snow last night that was predicted. Whew! I woke up and the low was 39 degrees F, instead.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, we had our first calf born. Finally. The cow was huge and when she calved, we found out why. She had twins. Unfortunately, one was abnormal in most every way; no joints, no eyes, yet fully developed. We were sad, but glad it was stillborn, so we didn’t have to put it down. The twin bull calf is very nice. He’s large, for a twin, too. Mom and baby are doing great this morning.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t the new calf cute?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, Will and Drew got the header on the combine that Brendan brought home on Monday. It was quite a job, but it finally locked in place. That thing is huge! I’m sure intimidated by it and there are much larger combines out there. We’re hoping to raise some nice oats for the cows and some wheat for the chickens and us next year.<\/p>\n

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The new combine is HUGE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drew was on the way home from work and he saw a momma fox and two pups playing next to the biggest slash pile way out at the front, by the clearcut. He got one photo on his phone before everybody ducked back into the den, under the pile. We’ve seen an adult fox run across the driveway a few times out there but haven’t seen the babies. Now I look every time I go out!<\/p>\n

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Can you see the fox pup? He’s hiding in the lower left corner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today I tilled the Sand and Central Gardens for the second time as the weeds were popping up along with some grass. Later on, I want to do the Main Garden for the second time, as well. Planting out there is still a couple weeks away. But we want as few weeds as possible on all the gardens. Happy spring all! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our plum and cherry trees are safe, at least for now as we didn’t get the 28 degrees with snow last night that was predicted. Whew! I woke up and the low was 39 degrees F, instead. Yesterday, we had our first calf born. Finally. The cow was huge and when she calved, we found […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,25,9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11602"}],"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=11602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11606,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11602\/revisions\/11606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}