{"id":8521,"date":"2020-12-10T15:34:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=8521"},"modified":"2020-12-10T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T20:34:55","slug":"on-our-last-good-day-we-hurried-to-get-another-load-of-wood-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2020\/12\/10\/on-our-last-good-day-we-hurried-to-get-another-load-of-wood-in\/","title":{"rendered":"On our last “good” day, we hurried to get another load of wood in"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the weather forecast, our above normal temperatures and clear days are about to come to an end. Snow and colder temperatures are on the way. So while I hurried to can up a small amount of stew meat, Will went down to the beaver logs and began cutting. Remember last year when Will hauled in a big pile of beaver-cut logs? He never had a chance to cut them up. Until yesterday when he began the job. We split a nice load then again, after my canning was in between stewing meat and chili, I went down with him to split up perhaps our last load before snow falls once again. I mean, after all, it was 37\u00b0 F above zero! We simply had <\/em>to make good use of this day. Besides, it felt so nice, being out in the woods. There’s nothing like the smell of damp woods. They can’t bottle that!<\/p>\n

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I love splitting wood on our tractor-mounted wood splitter!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We split and split that big pile Will had cut up. And all the while, our watchdog, Hondo, watched. He thinks he’s keeping us safe from marauding wildlife, I think. First, he sat on the logs, then he moved down to sit on the trail, all the time sniffing the air and watching all about. But the most dangerous critter he chased off was a red squirrel. (Maybe Hondo thought it was a really dangerous, mean squirrel?)<\/p>\n

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Hondo guards us while we work \u2026 from dangerous squirrels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were just finishing the truck load at sundown and boy what a pretty sunset it was! Lots of red streaks through the dark trees of the woods. A great finish to a very nice day.<\/p>\n

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We finished up just after sunset. And what a pretty sunset it was!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will and Hondo ready to head home with the firewood.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’ll throw on some supper than get to canning up that chili. Yum! I can’t wait to eat the first batch! — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the weather forecast, our above normal temperatures and clear days are about to come to an end. Snow and colder temperatures are on the way. So while I hurried to can up a small amount of stew meat, Will went down to the beaver logs and began cutting. Remember last year when Will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,13,22,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521"}],"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=8521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8527,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8521\/revisions\/8527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}