{"id":3443,"date":"2013-08-15T12:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2013-08-15T12:34:49","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T16:34:49","slug":"sorry-to-have-missed-blogging-but-this-homestead-got-real-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/08\/15\/sorry-to-have-missed-blogging-but-this-homestead-got-real-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry to have missed blogging but this homestead got real busy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Piggies.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3444\" alt=\"Piggies\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Piggies.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not the city out of the boy. Homesteading just wasn&#8217;t his thing. Then our second gilt unexpectedly began to farrow (we thought she had three weeks to go!) and we spent a hectic evening getting her separated and into a clean house with her babies. She ended up with nine live piggies and is doing a good job being a mom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mama-and-piggies.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3445\" alt=\"Mama-and-piggies\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Mama-and-piggies.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will has been madly making hay. And breaking down! Our round baler suddenly blew a hydraulic hose and I made three trips to town (30 miles away!) for hoses &#8212; it seemed New Holland made a hybrid fitting &#8212; part pipe thread and part compression, which nobody had ever seen, let alone had. Finally last night he gave up and cut the fitting off and replaced it with a non-hybrid compression fitting and was back in business for a couple hours, until the chain on the bars that make the bales went POW! That was about 8:30 p.m. End of baling for the day. Today he and Eric are repairing it and hopefully will get it fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, and I went blueberry picking with my friend Dare near her homestead. It was a beautiful dry swamp and we had wonderful picking of huge blueberries. I&#8217;m canning them up even as we speak. Ours were pretty dismal. Few berries and hard picking on our ridge as it got hot and dry while they were forming. I&#8217;ve also been making chokecherry jam. Love my Mehu-Liisa steam juicer! Takes the work out of making juice for jelly.<\/p>\n<p>Our seminar is coming up in a week and half. We did have another couple that had to cancel due to work problems so if you&#8217;d like to come at such short notice, just send me an email.<\/p>\n<p>We had a very light frost last night and I was a basket case, checking at 5:30 a.m. with a flashlight. We really need another 3 weeks or more of non-freezing weather as spring was a month late this year. Luckily our prayers were answered and we only got a little frost burn on our squash and cuke leaves! Whew! Everything looks so good we would hate to have it ruined. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, what a week. First off, our homesteading apprentice, Christian, up and left. You can take the boy out of the city but not the city out of the boy. Homesteading just wasn&#8217;t his thing. 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