{"id":3270,"date":"2013-06-11T16:56:17","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2013-06-11T16:56:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:56:17","slug":"we-have-a-milk-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/06\/11\/we-have-a-milk-thief\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a milk thief!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Snowflake\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Okay, he’s cute and snow white. He’s our milk cow Lace’s newest baby (a little steer calf, Snowflake.). At first, we were getting about eight gallons of milk a day. Then seven, then six. Now, when Will goes out to milk, often one or more quarters of Lace’s udder is udderly EMPTY! Which isn’t a big deal except that poor Will has to milk one-handed. If you haven’t tried that, it’s hard because you aren’t in rhythm; squirt squirt. Instead it’s squirt……….squirt……..squirt. And it’s hard on the milker.<\/p>\n

\"Lace-Will\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian is learning to milk so he can milk when we’re away at the MREA Fair in Wisconsin in a couple of weeks. Will does one side and Christian, the other. My knee’s getting much better but I’m letting the guys take over that chore for a while. Just in case.<\/p>\n

Will just hauled home three trailer loads of big pine, spruce, and balsam logs from a neighbor, who had sold them to him. Pretty soon, the good old Hud-son bandsaw mill will be humming and we’ll be seeing boards fly off into a pile for our barn and house porch roof. And I get to run it, too! I really like making boards!<\/p>\n

\"Logs\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Yesterday, we went down to my son Bill’s place where we met folks from the Twin Cities who had ordered pork from us. We did the transfer and had a great visit with everyone. Marlene and John even brought me a hanging basket and a ton of hostas, ferns, and berry bushes! Wow, how nice! Today I get ’em planted! Thanks guys!<\/p>\n

We’ve been having lots of rain, just like last year. I sure hope the beavers are wrong about a hot, dry summer. Last year it dried up in June and\u00a0 we had very little rain until snowfall. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, he’s cute and snow white. He’s our milk cow Lace’s newest baby (a little steer calf, Snowflake.). At first, we were getting about eight gallons of milk a day. Then seven, then six. Now, when Will goes out to milk, often one or more quarters of Lace’s udder is udderly EMPTY! Which isn’t a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,11,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270"}],"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=3270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}