{"id":11693,"date":"2026-07-13T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11693"},"modified":"2026-07-13T12:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:44:05","slug":"we-didnt-move-to-northern-minnesota-to-swelter-in-the-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/07\/13\/we-didnt-move-to-northern-minnesota-to-swelter-in-the-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"We didn’t move to northern Minnesota to swelter in the heat"},"content":{"rendered":"

But guess what? It’s in the high 90’s with high humidity now and for the next 10 days, supposedly! No rain in sight either. Whew! When you have an off-grid house, keeping cool is a struggle. We do have a small, window AC unit that Will put in yesterday. But it’s small and our house is medium sized. So, it doesn’t really cool it off but a few degrees. Will and Hondo go down to the basement, where he has a chair to sit in. Hondo lies on the cool floor. It’s 50 down there so they’re nice and comfortable.<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of Gypsy’s fabulous transport team.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Saturday, we drove 8 hours down to the Wisconsin Dells to meet and pick up our new dog. Glitch, now named Gypsy as a glitch is a mistake and she sure isn’t that. She was transported up pony-express style, by volunteers for the Malinois and Dutch Shepherd Rescue (MAD), through which we adopted her. These wonderful people brought her all the way from Dayton, Ohio, making a one-day trip. I took our new girl for a potty walk while Will and Becky, the last gal in the transport team, unloaded her stuff (her foster mom sent her food, toys, a blanket, heartworm meds, etc. with her). Poor Gypsy was so scared of everything. Now she’s settling in and learning the ropes. Such a sweet, loving girl! She’s already learned to trot next to our solar powered golf cart and is in love with me. She even gives hugs!<\/p>\n

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Now she’s home, enjoying the couch and learning the ropes on the homestead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now folks, on a different note, everyone pay attention, especially those who may have emailed me! My email got hacked by someone impersonating me, saying I had fallen and “broken my femur” and needed surgery. The next email “I” sent was asking if folks shopped at Amazon, etc. Giant Red Flag! NO, I HAVE NOT BROKEN MY LEG AND I WOULD ABSOLUTELY NEVER ASK ABOUT WHERE ANYONE SHOPPED OR ASK FOR MONEY OR GIFT CARDS, ETC. NEVER!<\/p>\n

If any of you have gotten this email, please delete it! This is so awful! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

But guess what? It’s in the high 90’s with high humidity now and for the next 10 days, supposedly! No rain in sight either. Whew! When you have an off-grid house, keeping cool is a struggle. We do have a small, window AC unit that Will put in yesterday. But it’s small and our house […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-animals","category-self-sufficiency","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=11693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11697,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11693\/revisions\/11697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}