{"id":5930,"date":"2017-06-01T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T16:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2017-08-23T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T22:44:17","slug":"will-was-busy-while-i-was-in-irving-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/06\/01\/will-was-busy-while-i-was-in-irving-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Will was busy while I was in Irving, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the Self-Reliance Expo over the weekend, speaking and helping out at the<em> Self-Reliance<\/em> and <em>Backwoods Home Magazine<\/em>\u00a0booth, Will kept busy. Not only did he set out 72 tomatoes inside Wall&#8217;O Waters, adding stakes to each with variety names, but he also did my chores. That included milking our newly-freshened doe and feeding her kid as her udder was too full for him to nurse without hurting her. She kept kicking at the kid and moving away. So Will milked to relieve that pressure and fed the kid. (Now the kid nurses on his own as Mom&#8217;s udder isn&#8217;t so tender.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5937\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/06\/01\/will-was-busy-while-i-was-in-irving-texas\/image-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5937\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/image-2.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Look at what Will got done between rains while I was gone!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the Expo, I enjoyed visiting with Dave Duffy and Annie Tuttle as well as meeting lots of readers and fans. I really enjoy that at each show.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5932\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5932\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/06\/01\/will-was-busy-while-i-was-in-irving-texas\/img_1759\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5932\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5932\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1759-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5932\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I enjoyed meeting fans and readers at the Self-Reliance Expo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now that I&#8217;m back, I&#8217;m hitting the deck running as there&#8217;s <em>so<\/em> much to plant.<br \/>\nWhen I got back, it was rainy and 50 degrees &#8230; It felt really cold after the 95-degree weather in Dallas!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5938\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5938\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/06\/01\/will-was-busy-while-i-was-in-irving-texas\/img_1763\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5938\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_1763.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5938\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">And now I&#8217;m busy too, getting ready to plant some beans and corn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But today the sun&#8217;s out and it&#8217;s 60 already and not yet noon. I<br \/>\nalready planted cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, and lettuce plants as<br \/>\nwell as readying another row of stock panel trellis for pole beans.<br \/>\nHopefully today I can get the Bear Island Chippewa corn planted in the<br \/>\nberry patch and maybe some more tomatoes. (If only the days were<br \/>\nlonger!) &#8211;Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was at the Self-Reliance Expo over the weekend, speaking and helping out at the Self-Reliance and Backwoods Home Magazine\u00a0booth, Will kept busy. Not only did he set out 72 tomatoes inside Wall&#8217;O Waters, adding stakes to each with variety names, but he also did my chores. That included milking our newly-freshened doe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930"}],"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=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6195,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/6195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}