{"id":8374,"date":"2020-09-23T15:09:22","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=8374"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T19:09:22","slug":"its-weird-after-a-night-of-20-degrees-yesterday-we-hit-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2020\/09\/23\/its-weird-after-a-night-of-20-degrees-yesterday-we-hit-80\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s weird; after a night of 20 degrees, yesterday we hit 80."},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weather’s been totally unusual this year, but with the current warm spell, we’re thankful and making the best of it. Will’s cutting hay on his last big field and I’m still picking beans if you can imagine that. Our apprentice, Alisha, came for a visit and kicked right in, helping like crazy, picking and shelling beans. Will showed her how to tread on dry bean pods to split them open, releasing the beans, of those varieties which had totally dry pods. It goes much <\/em>faster that way. We picked and picked. Whew. There are a lot of crates of drying bean pods, beans, and buckets of bean pods everywhere<\/em>! But with COVID-19, we know folks will be needing seeds for their gardens next spring.<\/p>\n

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There are still some dry beans left in the garden to pull in. These are Carminat purple podded snap beans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Although the garden was frosted, these Oka muskmelons survived under old sleeping bags.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our old wild turkey hen raised four poults this summer and we saw them off and on right into fall. Yesterday, Will saw a turkey in the woods, on the driveway \u2014 just a quick glimpse. We sure hope Mom is bringing the “kids” home for the winter. The family started out two miles from our place and the last we saw, they were a mile away and headed home. We hope.<\/p>\n

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With fall upon us, the colors are beautiful in the woods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ve got a big pile of laundry to get done so this will be a quick blog. Stay safe everyone, both from storms and fires, not to mention COVID-19. — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our weather’s been totally unusual this year, but with the current warm spell, we’re thankful and making the best of it. Will’s cutting hay on his last big field and I’m still picking beans if you can imagine that. Our apprentice, Alisha, came for a visit and kicked right in, helping like crazy, picking and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8377,"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\/8374"}],"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=8374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8379,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8374\/revisions\/8379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}