{"id":2173,"date":"2012-04-17T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2012-04-17T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T20:50:14","slug":"what-a-difference-two-days-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/04\/17\/what-a-difference-two-days-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"What a difference two days makes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two days ago, Will and I were working in T shirts. I was working in the garden, picking rocks and tilling and he was pouring concrete into the forms for the footing of our new front porch. I was even thinking of planting peas and setting in onion sets.<\/p>\n

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Then we listened to our morning weather radio station. STORM WARNING!<\/p>\n

So, instead, I made sure the wood box was full, fed all the animals extra, and filled all the watering tanks. It rained all day yesterday, then last night, it turned to a heavy, wet snow. A foot of it or more. Power went down here and there all over the area, as well as hundreds of trees. Of course, being off grid, we didn’t notice it.<\/p>\n

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But it WAS very hard doing chores this morning through more than a foot of drifted, wet snow. And Will had a heck of a time plowing our driveway (all 1.3 miles), getting stuck four times and breaking the driver’s side mirror and one plow light off on smaller trees that were weighted down across the drive.<\/p>\n

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We drove the Festiva to town a few hours later and I got to see a little of how bad the driveway was. (David had left for work an hour earlier and had to stop and chop down six or seven more trees so he could get his truck out without damage. Always prepared, he carries a hatchet with him.)<\/p>\n

The April 15th\/16th snowstorm seems to be an annual occurrence here in the northland. It’s beautiful but is one more reminder that it’s always good to be prepared \u2014 even in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two days ago, Will and I were working in T shirts. I was working in the garden, picking rocks and tilling and he was pouring concrete into the forms for the footing of our new front porch. I was even thinking of planting peas and setting in onion sets. Then we listened to our morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173"}],"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=2173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}