{"id":1818,"date":"2011-11-15T03:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2011-11-15T03:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T08:00:10","slug":"winters-holding-off-a-little-while-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2011\/11\/15\/winters-holding-off-a-little-while-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter’s holding off a little while longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

No winter, yet, so we’re keeping right at it. Yesterday, we got the rest of the pig pen and pig house finished, except for the flap on the door. To make it nice and cozy, we stuffed the pallets with straw, packing it down with a piece of scrap lumber. Soon, we’ll trailer the pigs down to their new home. I know they’ll like that!<\/p>\n

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\nMeanwhile, I’ve been tying screen around our fruit trees in the orchard to prevent damage to the trunks from voles. Voles tunnel under the snow and eat all the bark around the trunks, which kills the trees. You don’t know about it until spring, when the snow goes away and all your beautiful baby trees are dead, dead, dead. We sure don’t want that to happen! It also protects them from chewing rabbits. Even though our orchard and garden are totally fenced by 2×4-inch welded wire fencing, I’ve seen cottontails go right through it! Sorry bunnies, we need our trees. I’ll give you some scrap apples when the trees get big.<\/p>\n

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Will is taking a few hours a day to work on the bridge over the creek. It is now in place, and he’s hauled big boulders down there for rip-rap, to prevent the creek from washing the bridge out when spring break-up comes or we get hit with a big rain. Slowly, it’s becoming a real bridge; he’s got a few temporary planks on it now so he can run the four wheeler and wheelbarrow over it to dump rock on the other side. Big projects like this and the barn take quite awhile to finish but if you don’t give up and keep on working, it gets done. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No winter, yet, so we’re keeping right at it. Yesterday, we got the rest of the pig pen and pig house finished, except for the flap on the door. To make it nice and cozy, we stuffed the pallets with straw, packing it down with a piece of scrap lumber. Soon, we’ll trailer the pigs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818"}],"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=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}