{"id":6961,"date":"2018-10-05T14:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=6961"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:03:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:03:11","slug":"and-its-still-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2018\/10\/05\/and-its-still-raining\/","title":{"rendered":"And it’s still raining\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gee, this is getting kind of old. It’s supposed to rain for the next week, with only a day’s break with “cloudy” weather (which also usually means rain). Although it’s been hard to finish up our harvest and get the gardens ready for winter, we are making slow progress. The North garden is cleaned up and the cows have been let in to eat up the corn stalks, pumpkin vines, and weeds. Luckily, they love weeds because there were plenty! And the Central garden is cleaned up mostly. I harvested our row of Russian Mammoth sunflowers, the last of the dry beans, and Will picked a bit of corn he’s working on breeding. (His new plank cow corral fence goes through one end of the Central garden so he wants it clean enough to drive the tractor in without running down crops.)<\/p>\n

We’ve got most of the Sand garden harvested, digging more potatoes and pulling more dry beans. When we went in last time, our old Labrador, Spencer, came too. As he loves vegetables, he’s not usually allowed in the gardens. But there wasn’t much left and he would be supervised. We dug two pails full of Dakota Pearl potatoes and were headed out. He knew he wasn’t allowed to pick up potatoes, but he felt he had to be harvesting too, so he picked up an old corn cob, quite proud of himself!<\/p>\n

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Spencer with “his” harvest \u2014 an old corn cob.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Two more pails of potatoes headed for the basement bins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Every day I’ve been shelling dry beans and seeding peppers and tomatoes. I’ve found our little plastic greenhouses we start plants in are great for laying out seeds on coated paper plates. They keep the breezes out of the seeds, prevent Mittens from walking over them, and help organize the seeds and cups of fermenting tomato. I’m glad I didn’t take them apart for storage!<\/p>\n

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Our little plastic greenhouses do double duty by helping us dry seeds as well as starting plants in the spring.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will and I took the four wheeler out into the woods on the Wolf Forty yesterday when the rain had quit for a couple of hours. The maples are really gorgeous with their fall color and he showed me where the new pasture fence was being built, a little at a time, as he could. It’s coming along nicely and I was surprised to see several clearings with plenty of grass right in the “big woods.” It was an enjoyable ride as this time of year I don’t get much time in the woods. Gotta change that\u2026 — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gee, this is getting kind of old. It’s supposed to rain for the next week, with only a day’s break with “cloudy” weather (which also usually means rain). Although it’s been hard to finish up our harvest and get the gardens ready for winter, we are making slow progress. The North garden is cleaned up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,9,12,13,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961"}],"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=6961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6966,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6961\/revisions\/6966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}