{"id":13388,"date":"2012-12-18T10:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=13388"},"modified":"2012-12-18T10:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:41:54","slug":"what-are-they-building-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/?p=13388","title":{"rendered":"What Are They Building Now!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our family lives on a small quiet street.\u00a0 All our neighbors are retired so when we start a project, specifically one in the yard, everyone is all “curious” about what we are up to.\u00a0 One of our neighbors will sit on the other side of the fence in his lawn chair sipping sweet tea and watch us as we work in the yard.\u00a0 After 10 years of being the entertainment for the neighborhood seeing him pull up his chair just makes me laugh.<\/p>\n

We live on what the kids call a “small farm”.\u00a0 The property is over 4 acres with a big yard, creek, and woods.\u00a0 The girls and pets love running and playing in our yard.\u00a0 We’ve even done camp-outs, paintball games, bonfires, target practicing, and a lot of other activities in our yard.<\/p>\n

Okay…..so back to the neighbors question “what are they building now”?\u00a0 A little over a year ago I was reading an article about goats, don’t ask me why, just happened to catch my eye during that time.\u00a0 Now I am not a big fan of goat milk or cheese or meat so that wasn’t what caught my attention it was the part about what the goats ate.<\/p>\n

While the goat’s digestive system is similar to that of cattle, horses, and sheep they tend to prefer brush and trees over grass (they are more like deer).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reason why that caught my attention was because with our 4 acres we have a lot of trees, leaves, and brush.\u00a0 My husband and I had been talking a week before about spending some more time cleaning the undergrowth in the wooded area of our property so the article intrigued me.<\/p>\n

With all that being said our kids LOVE animals (dogs, turtles, horses, cats, you name it), it is one area they have in common. They have been asking for years for a horse (I don’t think that’s going to happen, at least any time soon).\u00a0 A couple months earlier I teased my husband that I was going to get chickens for the girls to raise and so we could have fresh eggs to eat.\u00a0 He vetoed the chicken idea mainly because we have too many wild animals that go through our property (turkeys, deer, racoons, possums, foxes, coyotes, etc….).\u00a0 So when I brought up the idea of getting goats (more as a joke) I figured he would just laugh at my suggestion…..well, he didn’t.\u00a0 He started researching it more and decided that if I was up for it we could consider the possibility in a few months.<\/p>\n

Well, a few months went by and we started preparing for the newest members of our family.\u00a0 What began with a simple glance at an article turned into building a goat house.\u00a0 Jake designed and built the whole thing by himself (well, with the help<\/em> of the girls).\u00a0 The girls were soooooooo excited!\u00a0 Here are some pictures of the process:<\/p>\n

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Brina hammering away<\/p>\n

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Brina and Karlie having fun “working” on the goat house<\/p>\n

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Daddy working with his two helpers!<\/p>\n

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Brina & Karlie helping Daddy on the roof of the goat house<\/p>\n

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Brina, Karlie, Mommy, and Skipper painting the goat house.\u00a0 The girls picked out the color “candy apple red”!<\/p>\n

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Jake took this picture through the window of the goat house. \u00a0 This picture made me laugh because my face looks so red!\u00a0 The candy apple red paint is reflecting on my face as I paint the goat house<\/p>\n

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Jake putting up the fence next to the goat house<\/p>\n

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The windows in, now time to do some more work<\/p>\n

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Helping Daddy sweep out the goat house!<\/p>\n

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Our family lives on a small quiet street.\u00a0 All our neighbors are retired so when we start a project, specifically one in the yard, everyone is all “curious” about what we are up to.\u00a0 One of our neighbors will sit on the other side of the fence in his lawn chair sipping sweet tea and watch us as we work in the yard.\u00a0 After 10 years of being the entertainment for the neighborhood seeing him pull up his chair just makes me laugh. We live on what the kids call a “small farm”.\u00a0 The property is over 4 acres with a big yard, creek, and woods.\u00a0 The girls and pets love running and playing in our yard.\u00a0 We’ve even done camp-outs, paintball games, bonfires, target practicing, and a lot of other activities in our yard. Okay…..so back to the neighbors question “what are they building now”?\u00a0 A little over a year ago I was reading an article about goats, don’t ask me why, just happened to catch my eye during that time.\u00a0 Now I am not a big fan of goat milk or cheese or meat so that wasn’t what caught my attention it was the part about what the goats ate. While the goat’s digestive system is similar to that of cattle, horses, and sheep they tend to prefer brush and trees over grass (they are more like deer).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reason why that caught my attention was because with our 4 acres we have a lot of trees, leaves, and brush.\u00a0 My husband and I had been talking a week before about spending some more time cleaning the undergrowth in the wooded area of our property so the article intrigued me. With all that being said our kids LOVE animals (dogs, turtles, horses, cats, you name it), it is one area they have in common. They have been asking for years for a horse (I don’t think that’s going to happen, at least any time soon).\u00a0 A couple months earlier I teased my husband that I was going to get chickens for the girls to raise and so we could have fresh eggs to eat.\u00a0 He vetoed the chicken idea mainly because we have too many wild animals that go through our property (turkeys, deer, racoons, possums, foxes, coyotes, etc….).\u00a0 So when I brought up the idea of getting goats (more as a joke) I figured he would just laugh at my suggestion…..well, he didn’t.\u00a0 He started researching it more and decided that if I was up for it we could consider the possibility in a few months. Well, a few months went by and we started preparing for the newest members of our family.\u00a0 What began with a simple glance at an article turned into building a goat house.\u00a0 Jake designed and built the whole thing by himself (well, with the help of the girls).\u00a0 The girls were soooooooo excited!\u00a0 Here are some pictures of the process: Brina hammering away Brina and Karlie having fun “working” on the goat house Daddy working with his two helpers! Brina & Karlie helping Daddy on the roof of the goat house Brina, Karlie, Mommy, and Skipper painting the goat house.\u00a0 The girls picked out the color “candy apple red”!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,67,11,16,21,25,43],"tags":[704,1757,3249,3561,7524,10481,16730,17537,18073],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-family-activities","category-family-fun-2","category-kids","category-loving-life","category-raising-multiples","category-twins","tag-activities","tag-barn","tag-building","tag-candy-apple-red","tag-family","tag-goats","tag-neighbors","tag-outside","tag-pets"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcnfwQ-3tW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blessingsmultiplied.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}