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<\/a>\nWill has the Kawasaki Mule running so that both of us can sit on it while it goes. He still has some clutch adjustments to make and has to hook up the throttle and choke. (Right now he has to turn around and hold the throttle cable to make it go.) But it’s definitely on the upswing. I can hardly wait to finish getting my raised beds and flower beds ready for planting and growing. And I have a ton of mulch to haul around here and there. I want less weeds this year!<\/p>\n
I guess it’s going around; everyone I talk to either has it or just got over it \u2014 the spring cold. Nose runs like a firehose and cough, cough, cough. I finally went to the clinic yesterday and got a chest x-ray, just to make sure my pneumonia wasn’t coming back. They put me on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10,13,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728"}],"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=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>
\nYou should see Hondo. He carried firewood in all winter and now he’s always dragging up some branch or small tree, as happy as a lark. I guess he figures that’s “firewood” too.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI’ve finished the painting for the cover of my next Western novel, Autumn of the Loons<\/a><\/em>, and I’ll be mailing it to the publisher tomorrow as Will has made another handy-dandy safe box in which to mail it. Only an elephant can damage the painting in that wooden box! A pretty angry elephant, too. We’re getting excited about the coming release as the first book, Summer of the Eagles<\/a><\/em>, has gotten great reviews. (Thank each and every one of you!) — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"