{"id":8312,"date":"2020-08-21T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=8312"},"modified":"2020-08-21T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-21T15:44:20","slug":"who-said-animals-are-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2020\/08\/21\/who-said-animals-are-dumb\/","title":{"rendered":"Who said animals are dumb?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had been having problems with deer getting into our Sand and Central gardens. Half was fenced with 6-foot welded wire where the Central garden side only had stock panels and a string of electric tape above that. So, Will and I went to work and added another 4 feet to the stock panels with used 2″x4″ wire, then put up stock panels on top of our cow corral plank fence which was only 5 feet tall. There! Only the next morning I went in and found fresh deer tracks and a half-eaten watermelon plus several tomatoes bitten and pulled from the vines. After checking I found they had been jumping into the training ring\/cow corral then hopping over the 5-foot-high plank fence to get into the gardens. Okay, we spent another day putting up more stock panels on top of the planks. So there, you deer-creeps! However, we were lacking one place next to the barn. But we thought surely they wouldn’t go there \u2014 wrong. So that place got a stock panel. And quite smugly I went to check the next morning. More <\/em>deer damage and tracks. I trailed them from the garden back to where they had a nice road going through the grass and through a broken plank near the bottom of the training ring. Darn, we’d missed that! I repaired the fence, and the next morning the cows <\/em>were in garden! In his hurry to fix the fence in the Central garden, making it higher, Will had unfastened the stock panel in the corner. And, yep, the cows had found it and pulled the panel out, opening the fence. So no more corn in there: Navajo Robin’s Egg Blue, Seneca Blue Bear Dance, and my canning sweet corn. The good news is they didn’t damage the melons, tomatoes, or onions. More bad news; no Hopi Pale Grey squash this year. So, if any of you have any pure squash (no other C. maximas<\/em> in the garden or nearby), please send mature dry seed so I can share this wonderful and popular squash with others next year. Just let me know, okay? The good news, no more deer\u2026<\/p>\n

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Although I lost my sweet corn for canning, my friend, Dick helped me out, big time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the first bag of corn, all cut and ready to can up. It’s in the canner right now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was so down about losing my canning corn I didn’t know what to do. Sure, I have more corn in the pantry but to can no <\/em>corn? Then I remembered a friend who has two farms, one nearby and one in southern Minnesota. And he had always grown lots of corn. Maybe Dick would be having some I could buy in bulk? I stopped by, hoping to catch he and his wife, Jen, home. Yep, Dick was mowing the lawn! And when I told him my problem, he took me out to his corn patch, which was nearly half an acre! He invited me out today to pick and we traded some beef (No, not fresh beef!) and stuff for the corn although he said he’d give me the corn. Today I am busy canning it up. Hooray! Isn’t it wonderful to have great friends?<\/p>\n

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Check out the storm that nearly got us!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will’s been trying to get hay up and boy what a struggle! The fields are sopping wet from all the rain. Even with three good dry days, the fields are still too wet to bale. He cut a new field, which is up on a hill and it has wonderful, thick hay. It lay, drying yesterday and he was going to rake and bale it today. Then, last night a huge storm came up from the North \u2014 lightning constantly and huge black clouds. My friend, Dara, texted me they were getting terrific rain and hail. She lives a ways north east of us and we could sure see the storm even though it was night. I spent a long time on the front porch watching it while Will checked the weather radio for tornado warnings. We got nothing. Then, this morning, we got rain. Again. Luckily it was less than \u00bc inch, barely wetting the ground. Will went out this afternoon to rake the hay and hopefully he can bale it tomorrow. Whew, what a week! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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