{"id":11799,"date":"2026-09-14T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=11799"},"modified":"2026-09-14T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T17:40:36","slug":"we-had-the-heaviest-rain-ive-ever-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2026\/09\/14\/we-had-the-heaviest-rain-ive-ever-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"We had the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday it was supposed to rain in the afternoon. We expected that. But when it came, it was like a typhoon. Will said the only harder rain he’d ever seen was in an actual typhoon, when he was in the Marines, in Okinawa during the Vietnam War. I mean it poured so hard it looked like a waterfall coming off our house roof. Then it really poured. So hard, you couldn’t see out the window! Yes, we needed rain, but holy cow!<\/p>\n

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Just look at the rain pouring off our roof from the torrential rain we had on Friday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been canning up a storm. I did more apple slices, then plum juice (to make jelly later), plum jam and more salsa from the Bill Bean tomatoes I collected seeds from. Let me tell you, those were (and are) huge <\/em>tomatoes! One of the biggest weighed very close to 3 pounds. And there were dozens more on the same vine too. And the Goat’s Bag tomatoes? I guess they didn’t want to get ignored, as our biggest, so far, weighed over 2 pounds.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been canning up a storm every single day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Check out this Goat’s Bag tomato!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had a frost advisory for our area last night and boy was I scared. After canning in the morning, Will and I went out and picked more than 2 heaping full crates of ripe tomatoes. I sure wanted to pick more as I think there are 10 more crates out there. But both of our backs were really aching bad, and we decided enough was enough. You’d better believe I spent the night praying we wouldn’t get frost, even though my phone weather app said it was supposed to drop to 33 degrees F early this morning. The prayers worked, as it didn’t frost, even in our lowest garden, the North Garden.<\/p>\n

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These are some of the tomatoes we picked yesterday, hoping we wouldn’t get that forecast frost.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As I was cruising around this morning, checking everything, I saw the pair of Sandhill Cranes lift off from our sweet corn patch in the North Garden, where they’ve been busy taste-testing the sweet corn. They’ve eaten one small patch, but it didn’t amount to much anyway, so I wasn’t too sad. But boy, do we ever have a bunch of hybrid (so I don’t get tempted to save seed instead of eating it) sweet corn for us to can up that is just getting ripe. After I get done with the plums I think I’ll go out and pick a bucket full and get at least that much more done before tackling the tomatoes again. I want to can up some chili and spaghetti sauce of a couple of flavors plus some tomato chunks to add to various recipes later on. Such a busy, yet fulfilling time of the year! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday it was supposed to rain in the afternoon. We expected that. But when it came, it was like a typhoon. Will said the only harder rain he’d ever seen was in an actual typhoon, when he was in the Marines, in Okinawa during the Vietnam War. I mean it poured so hard it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food-preservation","category-gardening","category-seeds","category-self-sufficiency","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799","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=11799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11804,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11799\/revisions\/11804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}