{"id":3355,"date":"2013-07-10T17:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3355"},"modified":"2013-07-10T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T21:37:19","slug":"will-is-starting-to-cut-hay-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/07\/10\/will-is-starting-to-cut-hay-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Will is starting to cut hay today"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Oliver out of commission for the time being, it looks like we’ll be putting up square bales for a while. And as the hay is just right, Will didn’t want to wait any longer to cut, especially when we have 4 days of dry weather forecasted. With him, Eric, and Christian this year, it should go faster and smoother than in years past. The hay does look good and we’ve picked up another hayfield. Hopefully we’ll harvest enough hay so we don’t have to buy so much this coming winter.<\/p>\n

Will and Christian moved Blackie, our most pregnant gilt, into her new pasture so she’ll be on clean ground and have private accommodations to farrow in. Our other gilt looks to be about a month or 6 weeks behind her and our sow, Blondie, was just bred so it’ll be a while. It’s kind of nice to have them farrow at staggered dates so we can pay more attention to both the moms and babies.<\/p>\n

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

\"bathtub-wallow\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Lace, our milk cow, is still putting out about three gallons of milk per day along with feeding Snowflake, her calf. I have been busy and haven’t made much cheese this week, but am skimming cream and making butter about every two days. Boy, is it so much better than store butter. But is that a surprise? Like everything else, homemade is always better, which is one reason we homestead.<\/p>\n

With the hot weather, the pigweed in the garden is growing madly. We’ve barely been able to keep it pulled. I sure hope our tiller part gets here soon so we can “cheat” and whiz it between the rows. Our sweet corn is knee-high now and the squash is beginning to run. Our garden got planted late because of the icy spring we had but it’s making up for it now.<\/p>\n

\"Front-porch\"<\/a><\/p>\n

We’re getting excited about our August seminar and seeing old friends from last year’s seminar and meeting new ones this year. Our friend Carolyn is offering bed and breakfast at her farm home again and said she still has one bed open for any of you singles who still haven’t booked accommodations. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Oliver out of commission for the time being, it looks like we’ll be putting up square bales for a while. And as the hay is just right, Will didn’t want to wait any longer to cut, especially when we have 4 days of dry weather forecasted. With him, Eric, and Christian this year, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355"}],"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=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}