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  • Hewitt’s Shoes

    Hewitt’s Shoes

    I have five brothers who are still growing. Constantly. We’re always buying them new clothes, because as farm kids, they wear them out before they can pass them down to the next brother. Another thing we’re always buying is shoes and boots – you’d think those would last them a while, but they go even…

  • 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…

  • Washing the Beast

    Washing the Beast

    We’ve had the Beast for a while now, and it was getting really dirty. Because of the wrap (the pictures) we can’t take it to a car wash – not that it would fit in there anyway. So Dad told the kids one hot summer day that it was time to clean the Beast. “First…

  • 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…

  • Kids Cooking – Sourdough Pancakes

    Kids Cooking – Sourdough Pancakes

    If you’ve been following this series, you know why sourdough is healthy, how to feed your starter, and how to make sourdough bread.   Now it’s time to share what we do when we have too much starter. We make pancakes! I will include our measurements here, but below I’ll put a smaller batch size. First,…

  • Ask A Jonas – Hewitt’s Thoughts on Running A Business

    Ask A Jonas – Hewitt’s Thoughts on Running A Business

    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! Hewitt, what do…

  • Happy Birthday, Hewitt!

    Happy Birthday, Hewitt!

    My baby brother is now ten! Hewitt spent the day before his birthday counting down. “Ten hours, Brett! Ten hours until I’m ten!” He was really excited because, “I won’t be a single digit anymore!” He blew out the ten candles on his Breakfast Birthday Cake easily. When he started cutting the pieces and lifting…

  • Splitting Firewood

    Splitting Firewood

    We heated our old house exclusively with wood.  We have a fireplace insert at our new house, but we also use gas heat (which is good because my bedroom is at the opposite end of the house from the fireplace). We have a lot of downed trees from the construction on our new farm.  A…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Disney Wild Africa Trek

    Disney Wild Africa Trek

    While we were in Disney World, we decided it was time to do something we’d never done before. The Wild Africa Trek! Indigo and Jade were too young, so while we were doing it, they went off and toured Animal Kingdom with some of Grandma’s friends. I can honestly say that this is one of…

  • Ice Hockey

    Ice Hockey

    Since it’s been so cold for the past couple of weeks, our creek is frozen solid. (Yes, completely solid.) So the kids decided that they wanted to have a little fun. What started as tossing an empty water bottle around on the ice turned into ice hockey, using an old water bottle and some sticks.…

  • Blooper Reel

    Blooper Reel

    All of the videos we have been recording lately have provided lots of material for bloopers.  I didn’t even realize they had some of this stuff on tape, but it’s pretty funny.  Which is your favorite blooper?    

  • Picking out a Christmas Tree

    Picking out a Christmas Tree

    This is the first year in our new house and the children had their heart set on a HUGE tree.  So we went to a local tree farm where we first found a huge pile of geodes. We took a hay wagon ride to the field. And started looking at trees. Indigo kept picking out…