{"id":9260,"date":"2022-01-31T21:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T02:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=9260"},"modified":"2022-01-31T21:42:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T02:42:57","slug":"were-experiencing-a-heat-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2022\/01\/31\/were-experiencing-a-heat-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re experiencing a heat wave"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today it topped out at 27 degrees above zero F! We were thrilled and it sure gave us a hint of the spring to come, here at the very end of January. It sure makes you feel like being outside instead of inside at below zero temperatures.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, Will went out and started up Old Trusty, the big bulldozer, and dozed a trail way out north of the North Garden, where he remembered a huge white spruce tree that was dying due to carpenter ants invading the lower trunk. There’s no fix to that, unfortunately. So, today, he took the chainsaw out and drove Old Trusty back out to the spruce. He cut it down, limbed it, then hooked up with a chain, to drag it back up to the yard near the sawmill. After a short break, he went back out to cut off the remaining butts where branches had been cut off then cut a firewood-long chunk out of the butt of the log. Yep, bad carpenter ants! Then he cut another slice, further up. Ah ha! They hadn’t gotten too far up the trunk at all, but it would sure have killed the tree as the tree was already showing brown needles throughout the whole top.<\/p>\n

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The carpenter ants have gotten into and have killed this big spruce tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Will is trimming up the butt to see how far the carpenter ants have gotten up the log.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Luckily, the ants haven’t gotten far up the log. We’ll get lots of lumber out of it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Will needs some more 16-foot 2×10’s for his run-in cow shed and our friend, Mike, needs some 16-foot 2×6’s for rafters on the addition he’s going to build onto their cabin. That one huge log will give the guys most, if not all, of what they need. What a win-win situation \u2026 except for the poor ant-ridden tree.<\/p>\n

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Friends are wonderful. Dara comes to help us pack seeds once or twice a week.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mike is busy helping a friend put siding on their summer kitchen today, so Dara is here helping us out packing seed packs. We’re both excited to figure out just what we will be planting too, this spring. There’s always a little room for more of this or that. (And I know this guy with a BIG bulldozer\u2026) — Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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