{"id":5755,"date":"2017-02-02T18:04:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:44:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:44:50","slug":"were-back-to-sub-zero-temps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/02\/02\/were-back-to-sub-zero-temps\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re back to sub-zero temps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do we do when it&#8217;s so cold? Play catch-up on those chores we&#8217;ve been putting off before spring comes and we don&#8217;t have time. Today, Will brought in his chainsaw chain sharpener on the stand he&#8217;d put together from assorted &#8220;junk&#8221; and started sharpening. He has more than seven chains and now they&#8217;re all ready for the woods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/02\/02\/were-back-to-sub-zero-temps\/sharpening-chains_1396\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sharpening-chains_1396.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"380\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5756\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sharpening-chains_1396.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Sharpening-chains_1396-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I cut up and canned a ham. And next I&#8217;m boiling the bone and will make bean soup to can. Out of that one half ham I&#8217;ll end up with about 35 meals, all totalled. Not bad for one piece of meat!<\/p>\n<p>Mittens and the dogs just laid around in the sun and slept. Of course, Hondo, being a comfort creature, just hopped on the (forbidden) good sofa, put his head on a pillow and went to sleep, perhaps dreaming of chasing rabbits or coyotes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/02\/02\/were-back-to-sub-zero-temps\/hondo_1391\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5757\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Hondo_1391.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"348\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Hondo_1391.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Hondo_1391-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all you Jess Hazzard fans out there (Jess is the main character in my Western novels), I thought you might like to see the real country where he lived; the Upper Green River Valley and the Green Lakes region in Wyoming. We&#8217;ve travelled there several times and enjoyed the Bridger-Teton Wilderness. It&#8217;s one of the most beautiful sections of the U.S. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/02\/02\/were-back-to-sub-zero-temps\/upper-green-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5758\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upper-green-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"715\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upper-green-2.jpg 446w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upper-green-2-262x420.jpg 262w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/upper-green-2-187x300.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we do when it&#8217;s so cold? 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He has more than seven chains and now they&#8217;re all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,13,17,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755"}],"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=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6219,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/6219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}