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<\/a><\/p>\nThe bad? Yesterday, they put frost warnings on the weather radio! Eeeek! Hey, this is JULY! But I remembered July 27, of the first year we were here, when it froze my tomatoes dead. And our garden is way too big to cover all of our sensitive plants. The peppers and melons are in hoop houses, so they’d be okay, but the corn, squash, potatoes, tomatoes? The only thing we could do is run the sprinklers if frost threatened. So three times last night I got up (who could sleep?), went outside, and checked the frost potential. There was a heavy dew and it was in the high thirties, but no frost. I’ll bet the wildlife got a laugh with me out in my underwear with a flashlight, feeling the grass and squash leaves! Thank God very much, NO FROST!<\/p>\n
And the ugly? There was this growl in our Subaru that was pretty nasty and getting worse. We took it to our mechanic\/friend, Curt Langevin, and received the sad news that the trans-axle (basically the transmission), was about to go. Repair would cost about $1,500 and I’m sure Curt was helping us a bit there. Sigh. Luckily after a day of depression (where would we get that kind of cash quickly?) Will hooked up the big trailer and went over to Curt’s shop to pick up the big load of scrap steel he had accumulated over winter. (Curt doesn’t have time to haul scrap himself.) There were several tons. And that check sure helped flesh out the amount of money we had to come up with. So the ugly is getting better and the ‘Ru will soon get fixed.<\/p>\n
Ah, life on the homestead. We also had a litter of eight pigs from a new-mom gilt. We lost one last night to unknown causes, but the remaining seven are up playing in the sunshine this morning. It’s warmed up and looks like summer again. Boy, last night it sure felt like FALL. No! No! We aren’t ready! And it IS still summer, isn’t it? — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The good was that Will had gotten the clutch back in the tractor and David brought our neighbor’s big tractor over to lift the motor and clutch back in our tractor. It was too heavy for delicate placement by our little tractor; it barely got it out of the tractor, having a hard time lifting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398"}],"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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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