{"id":3981,"date":"2014-05-01T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2014-05-01T05:00:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:00:52","slug":"rain-rain-rain-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/05\/01\/rain-rain-rain-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain, rain, rain, rain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep, we’ve had a rainy week! Cold and windy with rain. Not fun.<\/p>\n

Will’s working on building us a tub-style chicken plucker that I’ve dubbed Will’s Chicken Tornado, built out of scraps of this and that; an old snowblower, a plastic watering barrel, an electric motor from the dump. You know, the Clay-Atkinson el-cheepo method. Hey, it works for us.<\/p>\n

And I’ve been busy with inside stuff, writing articles, cleaning out the enclosed back porch, and moving our huge tomatoes out where it’s cooler to slow them down. I moved the peppers from the indoor greenhouses to the house greenhouse where the tomatoes used to be as it’s cooler there. In a week, they’ll go out to the enclosed porch too. Cooling peppers often makes them bloom more and set more peppers after they’ve been growing outside. Tomorrow I’m transplanting tomatoes. I put it off, doing other things, but they’re getting pretty big and need to get into styrofoam cups.<\/p>\n

\"Tall-tomatoes\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In between rainy spells, I’m trying to get the dirt Will deposited in the flower bed shoveled into the depression where the dead tree used to be. There are a lot of grass roots in that dirt so I have to rake and pick them out every few shovels full so I don’t end up with a grassy mess in my new flower bed. I’ve learned that a little prevention sure beats trying to fight grass and weeds later on!<\/p>\n

\"Dirt-pile\"<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, we’re hosting another homesteader potluck at our place. We did this last fall and had a lot of fun. We’re expecting more people this time and I hope the weather turns nicer so everyone can check out what we’ve been up to.<\/p>\n

Just a note: We still have some spaces left for our spring homesteading seminar in case you’d like to come but figured we were full by now. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yep, we’ve had a rainy week! Cold and windy with rain. Not fun. Will’s working on building us a tub-style chicken plucker that I’ve dubbed Will’s Chicken Tornado, built out of scraps of this and that; an old snowblower, a plastic watering barrel, an electric motor from the dump. You know, the Clay-Atkinson el-cheepo method. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981"}],"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=3981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}