PJ Jonas

Category: Goat Milk Stuff

  • My New Office

    We’ve made a switch here on the farm as far as offices are concerned.  Jim took over my office at the soaproom and my office is now located in the new kitchen building.  When we designed the new building, we dedicated a part of the furnace/utility closet to a mini office.  Right now, since nobody is…

  • Goat Milk Caramel Candies

    Our Goat Milk Caramel Candies are now available on the website! They are available in 2 flavors; Chocolate and Sea Salt. They are available in several different quantities including 5 pieces, 10 pieces, and 25 pieces. Everyone in the Jonas family absolutely loves them. Here’s what people who have tried them are saying: “The chocolate is divine, oh my…

  • Taping Boxes and Making Forts

    Taping Boxes and Making Forts

    Here at Goat Milk Stuff, we go through lots of mailing boxes. Normally, when we run out of prepared boxes, we’ll get everyone together and have a big box taping party. But the other day, some of the kids decided to have a box making battle. They split into two teams to make forts, with each team trying…

  • Safety Matters!

    Safety Matters!

    We started offering farm tours this year, which is something we’re really excited about. Everybody really enjoys them, but one thing we noticed was that elderly people had difficulty going up the incline by the barn.  To make it safer for everyone (and less muddy!), we put in a sidewalk between the soaproom and the barn.…

  • Please Take My Reader Survey

    Please Take My Reader Survey

    Your time is valuable and I want to make sure that when you spend time reading my blog, you’re getting the information that you want. I put together a short survey (13 questions) and would greatly appreciate you taking a few moments to answer them.   Thanks for your time. I’ll use your response to…

  • Hang 10 Episode 2: The Jonases Invade New York City

    Hang 10 Episode 2: The Jonases Invade New York City

    We LOVE to travel!  We don’t get to do it as often as we would like because of the goats, but we always take advantage of every opportunity that comes our way.  Normally it takes a LOT of time to plan a vacation for the ten of us.  We have to figure out sleeping arrangements…

  • Talking to Lucky

    Talking to Lucky

    Lucky, our contractor, is absolutely amazing. From the very beginning, he’s been here to help us make our property the best it can be. In order for him to help us with that, we have to talk to him a lot. I made it my personal mission to take as many pictures of Lucky talking…

  • Chicken and Buck Barns

    Chicken and Buck Barns

    We’ve already given you the tour of our main barn, but that barn is only for the female goats (does) and baby goats (kids).  We had to build two smaller barns for our bucks, dogs, chickens, and rabbits. This is the buck/dog shed. The concrete walkway leading to it is now lined by the female…

  • The Freezer Room

    The Freezer Room

    When we were building the soaproom, Mom asked Dad and Lucky, “Is there any reason to have a ten foot ceiling on the soaproom? Because if we don’t need it, we can just build the soap room eight feet high and save some money.” No one could think of any reason to have a ten…

  • Moving into the Soaproom

    Moving into the Soaproom

    Once our new racks were set up, Lucky said we could start bringing more stuff into the soaproom. Each day we would fill the Hulk with something new. It took us several weeks, but eventually we had everything brought up to the soaproom (and mostly put away). Our extra USPS boxes were some of the first…

  • Outfitting the Soaproom

    Outfitting the Soaproom

    As soon as Lucky said we could (well, okay, maybe a few days before he said we could) we started bringing stuff over to the new soaproom. We were so excited to get set up!  But first, we had to put together a lot of new racks and cabinets. The little girls were such a big…

  • Building the Soaproom

    Building the Soaproom

    After the soaproom was framed and the roof was on, it was concrete time!  Concrete truck after concrete truck arrived – a steady stream of them that left what would become the front yard of the soaproom a muddy mess filled with ruts everywhere. (Not that it bothered the kids – they love playing in the…

  • Footprints

    Footprints

    Since we did our handprints in the concrete at the soaproom, Mom wanted us to put our footprints on the barn’s porch. (Mom also suggested we do butt prints on the porch of the house, but Dad said no. LOL) First, Ramblyn put the “broom finish” on the concrete – basically, going over the concrete…

  • Handprints

    Handprints

    Moving our farm, our family, and our business was a momentous occasion.  It took hours of dreaming, thinking, planning, and working to make it a reality.  Mom asked me to put together a series of blog posts about the construction process. I wanted to start with this one because it means a lot to all…

  • Goat Milk Stuff on The Huckabee Show

    Goat Milk Stuff on The Huckabee Show

    I have received the nicest comments from some of the people who saw us on The Huckabee Show.  But my FAVORITE one was from a 70 year old man, who said that watching me on the show made his heart go “pitter-patter!” When I shared that with Jim, I don’t think he enjoyed the comment…