{"id":3990,"date":"2014-05-08T15:02:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:02:03","slug":"old-yellers-waiting-for-parts-so-will-switched-to-working-on-another-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2014\/05\/08\/old-yellers-waiting-for-parts-so-will-switched-to-working-on-another-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Yeller’s waiting for parts so Will switched to working on another project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will got the old bearing off of the rear axle of the bulldozer and luckily found a replacement housing for the one below the axle that had a chunk knocked out by the bearings when they came apart. Yesterday, bearings were delivered and now we’re waiting for more parts so Will can put it all back together again. I’ll be glad when that happens. He’s kind of crabby when his pet bulldozer is indisposed!<\/p>\n

This morning it wasn’t (1.) raining or (2.) snowing so he started pouring footings for the rock wall under our addition’s wall. As our house was built on a south-facing slope, the height below the floor varies from about 18 inches in front to more than seven feet on the downhill part where the future walk-out will be from our basement. Will is going to lay rock up using the same slip-form method he did for our front porch wall. Not only will it look great but it will partially support the wall and block out all wind from blowing under the floor. We borrowed my oldest son, Bill’s, cement mixer so it will be a much easier job than if we had to mix all that cement by hand.<\/p>\n

\"Footing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Porch-rock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I’m still transplanting — peppers this time. I finally finished all of our tomatoes. Whew! Now there is about a flat and half of the second go-around peppers and that’ll be done. I figure that after the garden is tilled and I get the tomatoes planted in their Wall O’ Waters, I’ll just about be ready to start melons, squash, and watermelons. Luckily, too, because I won’t have room enough until the tomatoes move out.<\/p>\n

We’ve got a Canadian goose setting on eggs right out in front of the house. It’s too far away to get photos but we can keep an eye on her with binoculars. I hope she has good luck hatching so we can watch the babies grow up. No sign of orioles or hummingbirds yet. I put out fresh orange halves this morning. A chickadee was sipping the wet grape jelly out of the feeder. Who’d have thought they would like grape jelly?<\/p>\n

I planted a new pear and two new Adirondack Gold apricots yesterday and have a plum to go in this afternoon. That’s it for big trees this year. All that’s left are a lilac, three black raspberry bushes, daylilies, and bulbs. I can’t wait. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Will got the old bearing off of the rear axle of the bulldozer and luckily found a replacement housing for the one below the axle that had a chunk knocked out by the bearings when they came apart. Yesterday, bearings were delivered and now we’re waiting for more parts so Will can put it all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990"}],"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=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}