{"id":6349,"date":"2017-10-31T17:30:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2017-10-31T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T21:30:50","slug":"we-have-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/10\/31\/we-have-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"We have winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our summer didn’t have its mind made up. One day it was 90 and the next the temperature was 55 and raining. It seems like this winter is going to be the same. Just a short while ago we were in T-shirts and this week it began snowing and getting into the high teens at night. But the beavers said so and we worked pretty steadily at getting as much dry firewood stacked in under cover as we could. (The beavers have built a thicker, much bigger house, and have stockpiled lots of brush in the mud bottom of the pond next to their house. This means plenty of snow and cold temperatures are in store for us.)<\/p>\n

I’m continuing to can up tomato products. Last week it was more pizza sauce, salsa, and chopped tomatoes. This afternoon it will be more seasoned tomato sauce. The green tomatoes are ripening nicely and we really aren’t losing many to rot.<\/p>\n

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We are thrilled with our Burro Mountain Anasazi corn!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re also shelling more corn. Last week and this week I’m shelling Burro Mountain Anasazi corn, an ancient popcorn developed by the Anasazis of Arizona, thought to be over fifteen centuries old! It grew well for us, here in the northland, each stalk bearing two or more ears. The tall plants also sent up tillers, many of them also having an ear. So it was very productive. Yes, the ears are small and so are the pointed kernels, but it is such a historical corn and pops well into small, nutty flavored puffs.<\/p>\n

This weekend Will, David, Ashley, and her dad Troy again worked on the new cabin. They got all the support beams in place, save one. Will found a small rotted spot on the beam so it was discarded. Luckily, they could cut two shorter beams from it. Unluckily, it was the longest beam so they had to hunt around for a tree which was tall enough and large enough in diameter to cut the big beam from. Will had spotted a big white pine in the swamp near our pasture which was leaning badly so he chose it. He and David cut it down, finding the bottom was rotten so it wouldn’t have lasted longer. But after cutting off a shorter section, they found good, solid wood. They limbed it and dragged it out of the swamp with the crawler-loader and on to the sawmill. Soon it will become the final beam. In the meanwhile, they cut several 2x10s for more floor joists from a log already on the mill.<\/p>\n

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Will looks the white pine log over after it was brought home.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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David cuts the log to size, allowing a few inches for “wiggle room.”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’re pretty happy with our pumpkins and squash this year, despite the horrible growing conditions we encountered. One of my favorites is Galeux d’Eysines or Peanut Pumpkin. This medium-sized pumpkin from France is simply gorgeous with the peanut-looking scars on the orange surface. And the thick meat makes wonderful pies, soups, and many other meals.<\/p>\n

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Isn’t the Galeux d’Eysines pumpkin pretty?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our summer didn’t have its mind made up. One day it was 90 and the next the temperature was 55 and raining. It seems like this winter is going to be the same. Just a short while ago we were in T-shirts and this week it began snowing and getting into the high teens at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349"}],"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=6349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6355,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6349\/revisions\/6355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}