{"id":3561,"date":"2013-10-01T15:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2013-10-01T15:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T19:42:22","slug":"were-finally-done-haying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/10\/01\/were-finally-done-haying\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re finally done haying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Will-baling.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3562\" alt=\"Will-baling\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Will-baling.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will baled up the hay he cut down on our steer pasture below the goat pasture. And out of that used-to-be-swampy, brushy patch of ground, we got 50 square bales of beautiful birdsfoot trefoil hay. And just as we finished getting the last bale into the barn it started raining cats and dogs! Hooray, we&#8217;re done haying! And now we are starting to split up wood to put into the storage barn and back porch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Beautiful-hay.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3563\" alt=\"Beautiful-hay\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Beautiful-hay.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But between jobs, we took time to host a homesteader potluck. My friend, Dara, came up with the idea a month ago and we each invited a few like-minded friends. What a fun day that was! Everyone brought great food and we all sat around chatting, sharing gardening tips, seed varieties, and other homestead stuff. Will and I gave the &#8220;tour&#8221; of our place and several friends harvested left-over tomatoes, sun chokes, and other crops for seed for their own gardens next year. We&#8217;ve decided to do it in the spring and fall because it was so enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lunch.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3564\" alt=\"Lunch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lunch.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re enjoying a beautiful Indian summer and the fall colors are gorgeous! I just hope it lasts for a while so we can get caught up! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will baled up the hay he cut down on our steer pasture below the goat pasture. And out of that used-to-be-swampy, brushy patch of ground, we got 50 square bales of beautiful birdsfoot trefoil hay. And just as we finished getting the last bale into the barn it started raining cats and dogs! Hooray, we&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561"}],"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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}