{"id":1983,"date":"2012-01-25T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2012-01-25T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T22:30:17","slug":"im-packing-for-the-npsa-conferencewith-a-little-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/01\/25\/im-packing-for-the-npsa-conferencewith-a-little-help\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m packing for the NPSA Conference\u2026with a little help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;m flying to Aberdeen, South Dakota, for the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture conference so today I&#8217;m madly packing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npsas.org\/news-events\/winter-conference.html\">www.npsas.org\/news-events\/winter-conference.html<\/a>. Click on the conference schedule button on the right of the page to see when I&#8217;m speaking). Will brought his wheeled travel bag downstairs for me to use to carry the books I&#8217;m bringing to (hopefully) sell. Mittens, our teen-kitten, thought it made a terrific playhouse. He spent more than an hour in and out of that bag, popping the flap open to ambush Spencer, then hiding back in the bag. What fun! I let him play until he was bored, then started loading it up, keeping the 50-pound checked baggage limit firmly in mind. I don&#8217;t mind flying a bit, but all the security and the fees for baggage DO make me cringe!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mittens.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1984\" title=\"Mittens\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Mittens.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope to meet some of you at the conference! Please come over and say hi!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, just an update: Several readers questioned our building a pig pen from used pallets, thinking the pigs would dig under, lift them up, or jump over them. Here&#8217;s a photo I took yesterday in the snow storm of our pigs IN the pallet pen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pigs1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1985\" title=\"Pigs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Pigs1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have yet to have an escapee. Pallets make great fences! And they&#8217;re free. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, I&#8217;m flying to Aberdeen, South Dakota, for the Northern Plains Sustainable Agriculture conference so today I&#8217;m madly packing (www.npsas.org\/news-events\/winter-conference.html. Click on the conference schedule button on the right of the page to see when I&#8217;m speaking). Will brought his wheeled travel bag downstairs for me to use to carry the books I&#8217;m bringing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983"}],"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=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}