{"id":6410,"date":"2017-12-07T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=6410"},"modified":"2017-12-07T18:42:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T23:42:56","slug":"our-cold-winter-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2017\/12\/07\/our-cold-winter-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Our cold winter is here"},"content":{"rendered":"

After such nice a week or two, winter’s back. Last night it was down to 12\u00b0 F with a thirty-mile-an-hour wind. I’m so glad Will and I hurried to get ready. We sure are happy we didn’t get the snow they forecast. Instead of 12 inches we only got half an inch.<\/p>\n

Will got the tube in the big tractor tire this morning, so (I think) the tire will soon be out on the tractor instead of in our dining room. I’m a homesteader, through and through, but that huge tire was a bit awkward to explain to visitors.<\/p>\n

I’m busy writing and also printing off seed package labels for the rush of orders that will come soon. I also ordered some new varieties of seeds for us to trial next summer, which is sort of an on-going process. We love to try new varieties; who knows when one will become our new favorite? I am also buying a few fancy daylilies (on the online Daylily Auction) to plant in a new flower bed come spring. Looking at all those colorful flowers is fun and sure makes the winter go by faster.<\/p>\n

I’m also painting the cover for the new Jess Hazzard novel, Spring of the Vultures, which will come out soon. While browsing online, looking at Morgan horses, I came across photos of a Morgan stallion who made me think of The Hawk and why I love Morgans. All that up-headed fire but no craziness sure appeals to me.<\/p>\n

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My sister e-mailed me a photo she took in her backyard, near Duluth. David sure had a bum hunting season, I guess he should have hung out at Sue’s! She saw a beautiful 8-point buck come out of the woods, snooping under her bird feeders. He sure is pretty. And I know David will drool. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After such nice a week or two, winter’s back. Last night it was down to 12\u00b0 F with a thirty-mile-an-hour wind. I’m so glad Will and I hurried to get ready. We sure are happy we didn’t get the snow they forecast. Instead of 12 inches we only got half an inch. Will got the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,12,13,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410"}],"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=6410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6410\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}