Hello from Morgan. I did dress up and danced, I went outside for only a little, because it was cold!!! I did phonix with Gabby, and I made presents for our next birthdays. We are going to probably play UNO! That's my favorite game and sorry. I like to crochet now and I'm working on a bookmark for mama.
Morgan
Monday, January 25, 2010
Hello from Ian
Hello from Ian. I'm writing a book. It's about our dog Jack. He's the Head of Farm Security! Jack protects the chickens, and barks and growls at trucks that go down our road, and he sleeps under the lean-to on a pile of hay. Jack is brown, with a long curvy tail, and big eyes. When he was little he had really really big eyes. When we got him we all said his eyes looked sad. But now he is bigger, and likes to run around.
Today I'm going to work on catequism, and maybe go outside, and write in my homesteader journal. It snowed a little tiny bit outside. I want it to snow really really big so we can make an igloo! It is my little sister's turn to write.
Ian
Today I'm going to work on catequism, and maybe go outside, and write in my homesteader journal. It snowed a little tiny bit outside. I want it to snow really really big so we can make an igloo! It is my little sister's turn to write.
Ian
Friday, January 22, 2010
Rainy Days Teach Lessons By Gabby
Today and yesterday has been rainy and dreary. Morgan Aidan and I cleaned up the shed daddy built. We keep straw, and our tiller, and tractor, bicycles, and our wood in there. Anyways, we cleaned it up really nice, and played house. Morgan made beds with the straw, Aidan gathered wood for the "fire" and I enjoyed being with them. Of course it had to start raining. So we stayed under the shed and kept the "house" straigtened, and made our straw beds, and had soup. The "soup" consisted of bark and nutmeat, straw, and water. We got the water by putting the dog and cat's tin buckets under the flow of the gutter. It started thundering and Aidan began crying, so of course, we took him inside. Morgan and I stayed out under the shed and continued " keeping house." After a while we figured since it was lightly hailing we might should return to our REAL home. I thought that was a very speacial time to spend with my littlest brother and only sister.
After returning to our cozy house, Morgan and I started crocheting. There is something about crocheting with your sister on a rainy day. Morgan was discouraged because she just couldn't get her stitches right like her big sisters. She said that "why should I do it anyhow Gabby?" I said "Because it could very well help you in life." Of course the next qestion passing out of her lips was "Why?" I thought a second and thought of why in the world I had said that. "Because Morgan," I said slowly "when you're older your future husband will probably want a wife who is industrious and can show that she can work hard to learn something new. If you quit now who knows what you might quit when you're older!" She looked shocked. I said "Of course it doesn't mean no one will want to marry you when you're older because you quit something years ago! But just that when you have something else hard in life to learn, he'll be able to see that you can stick to it and face it. But how can you do that if you quit at everything when you're very little?" Morgan looked relieved and more detirmined.
A couple hours later she showed me her new and improved stitches and said "Isn't it pretty Gabby? I'm making a bookmark for momma!" She is still working on it now but I wanted to tell the world of her accomplishment and it how it taught me lesson too!
I also wanted tell my nana that I'm very thankful that she taught me how to crochet when I was Morgan's age, and how she taught me so well and kept patient like I'm teaching Morgan now. (I know you needed lots of patience to teach me :)
After returning to our cozy house, Morgan and I started crocheting. There is something about crocheting with your sister on a rainy day. Morgan was discouraged because she just couldn't get her stitches right like her big sisters. She said that "why should I do it anyhow Gabby?" I said "Because it could very well help you in life." Of course the next qestion passing out of her lips was "Why?" I thought a second and thought of why in the world I had said that. "Because Morgan," I said slowly "when you're older your future husband will probably want a wife who is industrious and can show that she can work hard to learn something new. If you quit now who knows what you might quit when you're older!" She looked shocked. I said "Of course it doesn't mean no one will want to marry you when you're older because you quit something years ago! But just that when you have something else hard in life to learn, he'll be able to see that you can stick to it and face it. But how can you do that if you quit at everything when you're very little?" Morgan looked relieved and more detirmined.
A couple hours later she showed me her new and improved stitches and said "Isn't it pretty Gabby? I'm making a bookmark for momma!" She is still working on it now but I wanted to tell the world of her accomplishment and it how it taught me lesson too!
I also wanted tell my nana that I'm very thankful that she taught me how to crochet when I was Morgan's age, and how she taught me so well and kept patient like I'm teaching Morgan now. (I know you needed lots of patience to teach me :)
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Hello
Hello from one of us Lindsay children. I'm Gabby Lindsay the eldest of 5 and loving the job. All of us children are sharing this blog. We - Me, Caelin, Ian, Morgan, and little Aidan are happy to be able to say we have a blog like mom and dad.
We are homeschooled on a little 4 acre farm. We HAD 26 chickens...once, but we ran over some and also our dog had an extra few meals, but now we have 19. There is a picture of one at the top of the page. Our dog is 1/2 Lab and 1/2 cocker spaniel, making it the very cutest pup ever seen!
I planed on working on the first entry earlier but we were cutting logs since lunch today. Each person had his own job in the forest. Caelin likes to weedeat the thorns which are very, very numerous and get under our skirts and scratch our hands. I like to chop down trees, Ian seems to do well at the saw, and Morgan had procliamed that she loves raking (all her siblings are very relieved that someone enjoys that type of work.) I guess being a almost 3 year old, Aidan hasn't established much of a interest excepting getting in the way and being cute.
Our farm is in Centerville Tn. It's actually on a cliff so 3 sides of our yard you look down below to the road or a valley. We actually moved here about 6 months ago. Time flies. As I said, you look down on a valley on one of the sides of our yard, and it looks like your on top of a short steep mountain. We plan to slowly over time chop trees down in the valley and then the grass will regrow and we should have a whole lot more land for our dream animals. Right now we have chickens, a dog, and a cat. But apparently animals seem to be scarce right now int the middle of winter.
If there was any animal we could have right now it would be a cow- or a pig. I'd prefer a cow for milking but they are so very expensive. One that's milking is $1800! So we'll more than likely get a heifer and watch it grow up. A pig would be nice to. We've read in Joel Salitin's book, that pigs will till up to 3 ft. deep and while doing the work for you, they'll manure the to be garden! Not to mention BACON!!! And ham, and sausage, and best yet it will all be OURS. No one elses. The big food companies shall not ruin this Thanksgiving dinner! :)
We are homeschooled on a little 4 acre farm. We HAD 26 chickens...once, but we ran over some and also our dog had an extra few meals, but now we have 19. There is a picture of one at the top of the page. Our dog is 1/2 Lab and 1/2 cocker spaniel, making it the very cutest pup ever seen!
I planed on working on the first entry earlier but we were cutting logs since lunch today. Each person had his own job in the forest. Caelin likes to weedeat the thorns which are very, very numerous and get under our skirts and scratch our hands. I like to chop down trees, Ian seems to do well at the saw, and Morgan had procliamed that she loves raking (all her siblings are very relieved that someone enjoys that type of work.) I guess being a almost 3 year old, Aidan hasn't established much of a interest excepting getting in the way and being cute.
Our farm is in Centerville Tn. It's actually on a cliff so 3 sides of our yard you look down below to the road or a valley. We actually moved here about 6 months ago. Time flies. As I said, you look down on a valley on one of the sides of our yard, and it looks like your on top of a short steep mountain. We plan to slowly over time chop trees down in the valley and then the grass will regrow and we should have a whole lot more land for our dream animals. Right now we have chickens, a dog, and a cat. But apparently animals seem to be scarce right now int the middle of winter.
If there was any animal we could have right now it would be a cow- or a pig. I'd prefer a cow for milking but they are so very expensive. One that's milking is $1800! So we'll more than likely get a heifer and watch it grow up. A pig would be nice to. We've read in Joel Salitin's book, that pigs will till up to 3 ft. deep and while doing the work for you, they'll manure the to be garden! Not to mention BACON!!! And ham, and sausage, and best yet it will all be OURS. No one elses. The big food companies shall not ruin this Thanksgiving dinner! :)
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