{"id":2617,"date":"2012-10-03T18:54:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2012-10-03T18:54:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T22:54:57","slug":"will-and-david-brought-home-some-really-big-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/10\/03\/will-and-david-brought-home-some-really-big-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"Will and David brought home some really big logs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A neighbor stopped by last week and asked Will if he’d be interested in some logs. He owns and takes care of the old Alango School<\/a>, several miles from us. That bad windstorm in July blew down many big trees on the school grounds. Included in those was a huge spruce tree with a 30-inch butt. The top dropped right on their house and punched through the roof, ending up in the living room. Luckily, nobody was home!<\/p>\n

As we are out of saw logs to saw more boards for the barn, Will jumped on the opportunity. He, Eric, and David worked all one afternoon, cutting down trees to a 16-foot length (which they can handle with the tractor loader), limbed trees, carried branches to stack, and cut down several standing trees with the tops blown out of them. They hauled one big trailer load home. Then yesterday, Will and David went back to finish up — including the huge spruce that Will didn’t know if our tractor would pick up. He cut the big butt only 8 feet long and hooked the chain to the log. The loader groaned, but managed to lift the log! Boy, were the front tires flat! By chore time, all of the logs had been loaded, including several in the pickup box and Will took off for home with the tractor with David driving our truck and me following with the car. Everything came home just fine, although very slowly!<\/p>\n

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A sad note: Last night the fox who’d caught three of our baby turkeys got into the chicken yard and coop and killed four chickens. I’d been lazy and had not been closing the door of the coop because we’d never had any trouble. That’s what I got. My fault and you can be sure I’ve tightened the coop and will definitely close the door every night. I’m also setting a trap inside the chicken yard. We don’t like to kill the wildlife we live with but when they start invading our chicken yard, enough is enough! This afternoon I looked out the door and there sat the fox, right in the driveway! No time for a gun, but he’s getting pretty bold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A neighbor stopped by last week and asked Will if he’d be interested in some logs. He owns and takes care of the old Alango School, several miles from us. That bad windstorm in July blew down many big trees on the school grounds. Included in those was a huge spruce tree with a 30-inch […]<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}