{"id":2368,"date":"2012-07-03T13:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2012-07-03T13:14:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:14:24","slug":"its-been-hot-hot-hot-even-here-in-northern-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/07\/03\/its-been-hot-hot-hot-even-here-in-northern-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been hot, hot, hot \u2014 even here in northern Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will has the fence around the new forty acres done to the point that the horses can be turned in, with four wires on three sides and two wires on the farthest side. It’s been horribly hot work and the biting flies are thick. Today, it’s in the high 80s with high humidity and when I went to find Will after working on the “Ask Jackie” questions for the blog I was not surprised to find him soaking in the hot tub (without the “hot”). Would that be a “soaking tub?”<\/p>\n

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The garden is doing great! Everything is wonderful this year including our lettuce which, surprisingly, is standing up under the heat. The hoop house crops are booming and so is our sweet corn, squash, and potatoes … not to mention the tomatoes which are leaping up in their cages. Mmm, I can taste it all now!<\/p>\n

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We did suffer a blow a couple of days ago; a fox got into our goat pasture and killed two adult turkeys and the babies that had hatched in Will’s neat turkey hooches. We’d lost two turkeys a month ago but the same morning our wolf-husky got out of his yard and we figured Yukon had got them. (He’d chewed right through the gate … something he’d never done before!) We now figure he heard the commotion and tried to protect the turkeys. Luckily, we didn’t punish the poor guy! So we moved the remaining two turkeys back up to the chicken yard where it’s closer to the house and has 2×4-inch welded wire 6 feet high. Try, try, again next year I guess. Mama fox must have a den down in the woods and figured those turkeys were sent from God to feed her babies. This is the first time we’ve lost critters to wildlife. It happens, when you live in the backwoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will has the fence around the new forty acres done to the point that the horses can be turned in, with four wires on three sides and two wires on the farthest side. It’s been horribly hot work and the biting flies are thick. Today, it’s in the high 80s with high humidity and when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368"}],"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=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}