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Tag: Emery

  • Ask a Jonas – Emery’s Favorite Job

    Ask a Jonas – Emery’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…

  • Kids Decorating the Christmas Tree

    This year, when we went to get our family Christmas Tree, Mom had the brilliant idea of getting a tree for the front porch of the soaproom. The only problem was that we didn’t have any ornaments for it. So the kids made some! They took some of our packing paper from the shipping area.…

  • The Cross Country Season

    A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the boys winning the title of Homeschool Cross Country Champions. That was only the final highlight of a fantastic season. This season, the team spent hours listening to Coach Sweetland. This season, the team spent hours running warm ups, cool downs, and practices together. This season, the team…

  • Ask A Jonas – Do The Kids Like Their Unique Names?

    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! Jonas Kids,…

  • Ask A Jonas – Emery’s Thoughts on the Goats Eating Things

    Ask A Jonas – Emery’s Thoughts on the Goats Eating Things

    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…

  • Emery Crowing

    Emery Crowing

    I’m not a big fan of our chickens in general, but I really don’t like roosters.  Our biggest rooster is a Barred Rock and he is particularly annoying. He likes to run, as fast as he can, towards anybody that he thinks is inferior to him. Basically, anybody other than Dad and Colter. I recently…

  • Goat Collars

    Goat Collars

    We mentioned the new goat collars in the post about our goat photoshoot, but we didn’t explain why the collars all look different, and why that’s important. When we were talking about getting collars for our goats, we realized that we could use them as a tool. We figured out a system, and now, just…

  • Ask A Jonas – Emery’s Thoughts On Being Barn Manager

    Ask A Jonas – Emery’s Thoughts On Being Barn Manager

    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! Emery, what is…

  • Dry Ice

    Dry Ice

    The other day, we had a delivery (Graeter’s ice cream, yumm!!) that included some dry ice. After making sure the kids understood that they couldn’t touch the dry ice, they were allowed to do what they wanted with it. They wanted to touch the fog, to feel how cold it was. They wanted to pour it…

  • Meet The Goats – Ivy

    Meet The Goats – Ivy

    Our dairy goats are not only foundational to Goat Milk Stuff, but they are a big part of our family as well. Each of them has a personality and during this series we’re hoping you’ll get to know more about them. Ivy is one of our biggest and strongest goats.  She is Colter’s favorite goat, and is very…

  • Meet The Goats – Valley

    Meet The Goats – Valley

    Our dairy goats are not only foundational to Goat Milk Stuff, but they are a big part of our family as well.  Each of them has a personality and during this series we’re hoping you’ll get to know more about them. Valley is one of Indigo’s birthday goats. The day she was born, we were at China Garden Buffet…

  • Colorful Bedrooms

    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!    

  • 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…

  • Gardening Isn’t Just for Summer

    Gardening Isn’t Just for Summer

    In the past I’ve had a greenhouse.  But to be perfectly honest, I always found it a lot of work and I never enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed gardening the rest of the year.  Right now we just have our outside garden beds and we garden in the Spring, Summer, and Fall. Gardening…

  • Happy Birthday, Jim!

    Happy Birthday, Jim!

    Jim and I met at The University of Virginia, so Thomas Jefferson is very important to us.  Here is an interesting fact – Thomas Jefferson was born on Jim’s birthday (April 13) and died on Jade’s birthday (July 4).  I always post the children’s birthday photos, and they insisted that I post Daddy’s birthday photos as…