{"id":195,"date":"2008-05-13T00:28:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=195"},"modified":"2008-05-13T00:28:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T06:28:28","slug":"what-a-nice-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2008\/05\/13\/what-a-nice-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"What a nice Mother\u2019s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sunday, being Mothers Day, was extra nice.\u00a0 My sister, Sue, came up from Hermantown, near Duluth, and brought lunch.\u00a0 She also brought Mom flowers, which she loved.\u00a0 So we visited awhile.\u00a0 It had been cloudy, following the TWO INCHES of SNOW that we had the night before.\u00a0 But when Sue left for home, the sun came out and the snow quickly left too.<\/p>\n

David had asked what I wanted for Mothers Day and I told him “help fixing up the new spot on the big garden”.\u00a0 He smiled and fired up the dozer and down the hill he went.\u00a0 The week before, he’d roughed in the opening in the brush, on the north side of the big garden, removing stumps, rotted logs and popple tree roots.\u00a0 (He had cut down the small trees and tossed them over the 6′ fence, into the garden to chip.\u00a0 We did them and mulched the old asparagus row with them.\u00a0 No waste here!)<\/p>\n

In short order, the 20’x50′ new plot was clear and graded nicely.\u00a0 What nice soil, too!\u00a0 I got the 8′ fence posts laid out and David drove the dozer next to the fence line, so he could stand on the track to pound the posts.\u00a0 It IS hard to pound 8′ posts.\u00a0 I have to use a ladder, wobbling back and forth.\u00a0 The dozer track is much nicer.\u00a0 Real stable.<\/p>\n

Today I pulled the old garden fence down and wired it onto the new fence line.\u00a0 Great!\u00a0 Just when I was getting worried about where I was going to plant all my stuff.\u00a0 Wow am I excited.\u00a0 What a great Mother\u2019s Day present!\u00a0 And I don’t have to dust it, either.<\/p>\n

After the garden area was cleared, David found a frost boil where an old log had laid.\u00a0 A frost boil is a very wet spot, often only the size of a wash tub, surrounded by normal dry soil.\u00a0 They occur often where there’s been heavy frost or ice build up in the ground.\u00a0 And this melts slowly at first then all at once.\u00a0 It’s strange; kind of like quicksand sometimes.\u00a0 David bounced up and down on it and the ground around for about five feet quaked and shook like Jello.\u00a0 The more he bounced, the deeper he sank, until his feet were good and stuck.\u00a0 How fun!<\/p>\n

He leaned over.\u00a0 And over.\u00a0 Still, his feet were stuck.\u00a0 Then finally, plop!\u00a0 Out one came with a sucking pop.\u00a0 He fell right on his side with a laugh.\u00a0 Who needs video games when you have a frost boil????<\/p>\n

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Readers\u2019 questions:<\/p>\n

Canning juice
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\nI just bought a juicer and am looking forward to our crop of apples and pears this fall. Is there a way to safely can apple or pear juice?<\/p>\n

Erica Kardelis
\nHelper, Utah
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\nOh yes!\u00a0 All fruit juice is super easy to home can and it tastes great! To can it, simply pour the hot juice into hot, sterilized jars, seal and process for 30 minutes in a boiling water bath canner.\u00a0 That’s it.\u00a0 Enjoy. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sunday, being Mothers Day, was extra nice.\u00a0 My sister, Sue, came up from Hermantown, near Duluth, and brought lunch.\u00a0 She also brought Mom flowers, which she loved.\u00a0 So we visited awhile.\u00a0 It had been cloudy, following the TWO INCHES of SNOW that we had the night before.\u00a0 But when Sue left for home, the sun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}