Soap Room Construction
Today we went to see the progress on our new soap room! The kids had so much fun playing on the huge pile of gravel and Jim and I were really happy to see the structure coming together. It’s starting...
View ArticleSoap Room Construction
Our builders have been working hard this week, and the new soap barn is looking great! We now have roof trusses up as well as plumbing. The frame is coming together!! August 1, 2012: August 3, 2012:...
View ArticlePlaying at the New Property
Today we went out to the property and let the kids play around in the creek. They love getting muddy and seeing what great treasures they can find! The boys of course wanted to explore further up the...
View ArticleCleaning Up the New Home Site
The site work for our new home is progressing nicely. They’ve started cleaning out the trees on the home site so we can see the “lay of the land” and decide exactly where to place the home. The land...
View ArticleAlmost Finished!
The exterior of our soap room is almost finished! Doesn’t it look beautiful? We heard a funny story from our contractor. Apparently somebody stopped by to look at it and made a comment that it was...
View ArticlePlaying at the New House
Construction has been underway at the new house for several months. We asked our builder to “switch gears” and get the barn done because we wanted to move the goats before they got too far into their...
View ArticleHandprints
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...
View ArticleFootprints
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....
View ArticleBuilding 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...
View ArticleOutfitting 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...
View ArticleMoving 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleChicken 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...
View ArticlePlaying 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...
View ArticleTalking 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...
View ArticleFraming 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...
View ArticleChicken 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...
View ArticleColorful 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...
View ArticleOutfitting 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...
View Article4 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...
View ArticleSafety 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...
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