{"id":1656,"date":"2011-09-12T18:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1656"},"modified":"2011-09-12T18:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T22:08:12","slug":"now-were-working-on-two-barns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/09\/12\/now-were-working-on-two-barns\/","title":{"rendered":"Now we’re working on two barns!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if one new barn wasn’t enough, now we’re working on two barns. After Will came home with five new bottle calves, and we got such a good deal on several more, we suddenly were bottle-feeding nine calves! That is fine, but winter’s coming and the goats would not be too happy sharing their cottage with eleven partly-grown calves this winter. Talk about crowded! So Will has been shuttling work between the new barn and a 12×20-foot “stable,” adjacent to the horse training ring. First, he took Old Yeller down and leveled off the site so water will not stand in the stable or the area around it. Then he dug holes for the six poles and two days ago I helped him set those poles. Because it was 90 degrees plus…and dry as a bone, the dust was a foot thick down there. It was not a pleasant afternoon, but the posts got set and plumbed. Today, he is placing the flat-sided tamarack support beams for the rafters, notching them in to the upright posts. Luckily, we have some large tamarack logs so we won’t have to buy rafters. We’ll be sawing them with our Hud-Son bandsaw mill. I’m looking forward to that, as I really enjoy sawing boards with it!<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I’ve been canning up a storm following our severe frost last week. Now they’re calling for a bad freeze (down to the low twenties!) on Wed. night, so the tomatoes and even peppers in the hoop house have to come in to the house. So we’ll be picking up a storm very soon. Today I’m canning up blackberry jam from some blackberry puree our friend, Carl, sent (frozen) from Washington. So far I’ve done three batches, with enough puree for one more batch. Boy, is it good! Thank you Carl!<\/p>\n

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I just had to show you this photo of one of our Giant Marconi sweet peppers. We’ve always grown Giant Marconis because they are very productive and quite early. But this one is huge and fire engine red. We are so impressed with the results of our hoop house. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if one new barn wasn’t enough, now we’re working on two barns. After Will came home with five new bottle calves, and we got such a good deal on several more, we suddenly were bottle-feeding nine calves! That is fine, but winter’s coming and the goats would not be too happy sharing their cottage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656"}],"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=1656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}