{"id":9186,"date":"2021-12-14T16:18:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9186"},"modified":"2021-12-14T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T21:18:08","slug":"we-feel-so-very-blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2021\/12\/14\/we-feel-so-very-blessed\/","title":{"rendered":"We feel so very blessed"},"content":{"rendered":"

After watching the news and seeing the devastation from the band of killer tornadoes that ravaged the center of the country, we feel so lucky to be living in a nice, warm house, with our loved ones safe and everything snug. Our prayers go out daily to those affected by this horrible storm as we realize they have a very hard row to hoe, overcoming all that has happened. I ask that you join in my prayers too as that’s all many of us can do.<\/p>\n

I finally got another quarter of David’s deer cut up. As we have lots of stewing and ground meat canned up in the pantry, I decided to make this one into mostly stew. So I spent the day cutting meat, then adding potatoes, carrots, onions, and celery, along with tomato sauce, in a turkey roasting pan. So far, I’ve got nine quarts and a pint canned up and a little more in the canner right now. It sure smells good!<\/p>\n

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I spent the afternoon putting together this giant batch of venison stew, getting ready to can it up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I went down to get potatoes, I noticed one of those huge Dakota Pearl potatoes had a damp spot on the end, indicating rot starting. So I brought that one up. It was, honestly, as large as two of my hands! And when I peeled it, there was only one small bad spot and the whole giant potato was as solid as could be. Wow! I expected at least some hollow heart as it was raised in a summer of drought, with irregular watering at best. What a surprise!<\/p>\n

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This huge potato had just one small wet spot and turned out 99% solid!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did have to laugh though. When I was making the stew, I took the peelings out onto the driveway where we feed the deer squash and pumpkin bits. And right away, three deer popped up. It was peculiar; here I was making venison stew\u2026<\/p>\n

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It was kind of weird; I was cooking venison stew and feeding our neighboring deer at the same time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After watching the news and seeing the devastation from the band of killer tornadoes that ravaged the center of the country, we feel so lucky to be living in a nice, warm house, with our loved ones safe and everything snug. Our prayers go out daily to those affected by this horrible storm as we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186"}],"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=9186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9190,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9186\/revisions\/9190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}