{"id":3571,"date":"2013-10-05T03:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2013-10-05T03:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T07:00:09","slug":"with-several-inches-of-snow-falling-in-south-dakota-were-filling-up-the-wood-shed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/10\/05\/with-several-inches-of-snow-falling-in-south-dakota-were-filling-up-the-wood-shed\/","title":{"rendered":"With several inches of snow falling in South Dakota, we’re filling up the wood shed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Firewood\"<\/a>
\nWe’ve been making good use of the past week of good weather, cutting and splitting firewood. Will had quite a pile of dry ash cut up and while he chucked wood onto the splitter (mounted on the 3 point of our tractor) I ran the splitter. After about an hour we had a truckload, piled high. He backed the truck near the wood shed door and I spent the next two hours stacking wood as high as I could reach.<\/p>\n

Right now we have about three cords nice and dry in the shed, with another truckload waiting at the door. We’ve got plenty of dry wood cut up and ready to split but they’re calling for rain so we’ll see how much more we get in before that happens.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I noticed a dark “thing” on my shoulder. I thought it was a scabbed over small skin tag but when I had Will look at it, the “skin tag” had legs! It was a deer tick. They’re only about the size of a coarse ground speck of pepper but often carry Lyme’s Disease. That little potlicker was REALLY buried. Will soaked him several times with rubbing alcohol until he came most of the way out. After pulling him loose and saving the body for identification, he then had to dig out the pinchers with a hypodermic needle. NOT fun!<\/p>\n

\"Tick-bite\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Today I went in to the clinic and the Nurse Practitioner took a look. Yep, better go on antibiotics for two weeks, just to be safe. Lymes is nothing to fool around with as it can not only cripple you, but can kill, too.<\/p>\n

So back to the wood pile, keeping an eye on the shoulder from time to time. Hey, it could have been worse. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’ve been making good use of the past week of good weather, cutting and splitting firewood. Will had quite a pile of dry ash cut up and while he chucked wood onto the splitter (mounted on the 3 point of our tractor) I ran the splitter. After about an hour we had a truckload, piled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571"}],"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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}