{"id":7012,"date":"2018-10-30T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=7012"},"modified":"2018-10-30T16:26:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T20:26:09","slug":"yes-its-still-raining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2018\/10\/30\/yes-its-still-raining\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it’s still raining"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe this fall \u2014 rain, rain, rain. I so wish I could send some to you guys who are suffering drought! But winter’s coming so we have to work through the rain anyway. I just canned up another batch of wonderful applesauce and another 2\u00bd quarts of apple juice. When I juice the apples with the Mehu Liisa, taking only about 2 quarts of juice, it seems to concentrate the sweetness of the applesauce and then I don’t have to add sugar. Believe it or not, there are still many Frostbite apples on our tree. And that’s after sending my friend, Dara, home with several 5-gallon pails, picking a crate for ourselves, plus what we’ve eaten. Wow, not bad for a seven year old tree!<\/p>\n

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This is the garlic Dara gifted us.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I almost forgot to plant garlic this year. Dara had a bunch of bulbs from an old variety she has grown for years. (It has no name as it was originally from an old, abandoned homestead.) It’s a wonderful garlic and the cloves are huge \u2014 only about four cloves per bulb, but they are gigantic. She said she’d give me some and both of us forgot. Luckily, I remembered and she stopped by with them on the way back from the vet. I got busy and got them planted in our house garden, then mulched them well as it’s getting late in the season. (I did save two bulbs to eat \u2014 couldn’t help myself…)<\/p>\n

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For those of you who wanted to see our fat pantry \u2014 this is only one part of one pantry!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will is preparing to set up our new solar array on the south side of the old goat shed\/chicken coop. He ran a shallow ditch from where the panels will be located, across the driveway, and under the corner of the house. Some of the ditch was dug with the little 3-point plow he made for various projects, including planting potatoes (which worked very good) and burying our irrigation line on the side of the main garden. The driveway section is being dug with our old, handy backhoe. He will be running the electrical wire through an EMP plastic conduit, ditched down far enough not to run into it with other driveway\/flower bed work. Since our ground will soon be frozen hard, he wants to get the wire in and the cement bases made for the rack which will hold the solar panels.<\/p>\n

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Another pantry view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

David is also getting worried about snow and winter so he wants to spend his time after work and this weekend trying to get the roof \u2014 or more roof \u2014 on his cabin. So much to do in so little time! Then deer season is starting on Saturday and he’d like to get a deer so we’ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n

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The potato bins are under the pantry shelves. (Yes they are usually covered, protected from light.) Grains, flours, sugar, dry beans, etc. are in garbage cans under other pantry shelves.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve been strengthening our 6-foot fence and gates to keep the darned deer out of the back yard and garden. After all, they nibbled the buds on our cherry trees so we didn’t have any cherries this summer. Remember, they crawled under our side deck to get there. Well, I put a gate across the deck so they can’t do that again and I haven’t seen a deer out in the back yard so far. But this morning when I went outside, there was a big doe nibbling on my lilac bush! Dratted deer! And when I went out to shut the ducks in last night, there were seven deer grazing in our goat pasture. (I’ve moved the goats up to the old goat shed for winter, but there’s still lots of nice grass in the pasture.) — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe this fall \u2014 rain, rain, rain. I so wish I could send some to you guys who are suffering drought! But winter’s coming so we have to work through the rain anyway. I just canned up another batch of wonderful applesauce and another 2\u00bd quarts of apple juice. When I juice the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,8,9,13,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012"}],"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=7012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7018,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7012\/revisions\/7018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}