{"id":1729,"date":"2011-10-10T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2011-10-10T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T17:35:42","slug":"wills-still-peeling-logs-for-the-second-set-of-floor-joists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/10\/10\/wills-still-peeling-logs-for-the-second-set-of-floor-joists\/","title":{"rendered":"Will’s still peeling logs for the second set of floor joists"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems like Will’s been busy all summer peeling logs. That’s because he has! Any structures built from scratch (as in logs) DO take a long time, not just because of the intricate fitting, but also the basic peeling that is needed so your logs won’t become hiding and dwelling places for damaging insects such as carpenter ants and borers. No, we won’t have the barn done for this winter. But it’s coming along steadily and hasn’t cost us much, so far. In fact, the biggest expense has been the log screws and lag bolts. So, as before, we just keep plugging away. As long as we make some progress every day, we’re satisfied.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, I’ve been finishing up the fall canning. All of the tomatoes are finished. I did my last batch of pizza sauce yesterday, as well as a big batch of sweet red peppers. I’m nearing the last of my peppers too, and today I’ll finish them off by making sweet\/hot red pepper jelly with the last of our sweet peppers and jalape\u00f1os. That’ll be so tasty! And pretty too, as the red peppers shine like jewels in the jars. The jelly will too, without added food coloring.<\/p>\n

I’ve been making cheeses right along and yesterday I made a nice quick mozzarella and soft white cheese that’s a dynamite exchange for store-bought cream cheese. And I’ve been making butter about twice a week. Boy, is that better than store butter! (I do cheat and use a hand mixer to whip the cream, then dump it in my hand cranked butter churn to save time and my poor wrists.) It’s just so great to have all those dairy products from our own milk! And I know how sanitary I am with my milking and milk care. At every meal Will says, “Did you kiss that cow today?” — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems like Will’s been busy all summer peeling logs. That’s because he has! Any structures built from scratch (as in logs) DO take a long time, not just because of the intricate fitting, but also the basic peeling that is needed so your logs won’t become hiding and dwelling places for damaging insects such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,8,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729"}],"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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}