PJ Jonas – Page 87 – Teaching Families to Work Hard Together

Ask A Jonas – Indigo’s Favorite Job

We get asked lots of questions when we’re doing farm tours, selling soap at craft fairs, or simply running errands. Since most of those answers are heard only by the person who asked, we decided to share some of the common questions here on the blog. And of course you can ask a question of your own! “Indigo, what is…

August 6, 2014

How to Tease a Baby Goat

During the goat photoshoot, Jason (our barn cat) came over to visit the humans, and got a whole bunch of baby goats instead. The babies love Jason. Actually, they love his tail. The babies love trying to eat his tail, and he loves teasing them by waving it around where they can’t reach it. It…

August 5, 2014

Behind the Scenes of the Goat Photoshoot

Every year or so, we try to take “official” goat photos for the website. With the craziness of the move and construction, we haven’t had much of a chance to take goat photos. Our last goat photoshoot was over two years ago, and we didn’t even have official photos of some of the babies. I’ve been…

August 4, 2014

August 2014 Soap Contest – Now Closed

***NOW CLOSED It’s time for another Goat Milk Stuff contest! This month’s contest will be a little different. We will be giving away 1 sample pack ($50 retail value) to each winner. A sample pack includes 28 travel bars of our most popular soap scents. Each travel bar will come in a cotton GMS bag. The Facts: Contest Begins: 8/1/14 Contest Ends:…

August 1, 2014

4 Lessons Learned Through Construction

Building a house was not something our family had ever planned to do. But with the growth of Goat Milk Stuff, we needed a new farm and soaproom. And since the property we purchased did not have a house, we needed a house too! The construction project took almost two years from start to finish.…

July 31, 2014

Outfitting the House

Once most of the painting was done, the house started getting important items like kitchen cabinets, counter tops, thermostats*, bath tubs, and bathroom cabinets. We spent hours in the house helping to open cardboard boxes and then carting the empty cardboard away. With all the cabinets, bathroom fixtures, light fixtures, ceiling fans, doors, and everything else…

July 30, 2014

Colorful Bedrooms

When they painted our bedrooms, we were that much closer to living in our bedrooms. We still needed carpet, lights, switches, trim, doors, and a whole lot more, but the rooms were very colorful. Which made all of us beyond excited!

July 29, 2014

Chicken Board

When we were building our house, the stairs were some of the last things to be built, and it’s hard to jump up a three foot wall when you’re carrying things. So Lucky built us what was affectionately called, “the chicken board”. First it was on the side of the house, when they were framing…

July 28, 2014

Framing the House

A lot of work went into the house – clearing the land, digging the basement. That was cool to watch. But the best part was when they started framing it. That was when the new house became real for me – when we had walls and rooms framed out. That was when I realized, “we are…

July 25, 2014

Goofing Off

Construction was a very serious time. Every day, there were decisions to be made that would impact our farm forever. So there was a lot of talking to Lucky, sitting down with plans, magazines, and paint colors, and thinking hard about what we wanted. But it wasn’t all serious. We had a ton of fun during…

July 24, 2014

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…

July 23, 2014

Playing on the Piles

The Jonas children love when something is being built, because construction means that there are lots of piles. Dirt piles, rock piles, concrete piles – they don’t care, as long as they’re allowed to climb them. And slide down them. (I’m just glad that they each do their own laundry – the Youngest Person Rule strikes again.)…

July 22, 2014

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…

July 21, 2014

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…

July 18, 2014

Happy Birthday, Fletcher!

Fletcher turned 13 on July 12th. With that momentous event, I now have as many teenagers as I have non-teenagers. Yikes! Good thing my teenagers are all pretty awesome! Normally, we have breakfast birthday cake to celebrate birthdays. But the day before Fletcher’s birthday was a bit crazy, so Fletcher said he would be very…

July 17, 2014