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Starts

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By James Morford age 13   This year my siblings and I started to save money to buy a pony . We started plant starts for planting in our garden to sell the produce. To start the plants, we soaked Peat Moss pellets in warm water until they were about an inch tall, then we put the pellets in Pellet trays, planed the seeds we wanted to sprout in them, and put them in a little greenhouse. It took them a long time to sprout but eventually (about two weeks) they did. You can start any plant you want, but not all of them will live. A few months later, our starts were really big. Sometimes the starts have too much water and grow five inches tall. After the starts had mature leaves (about a month after they sprouted), we transplanted them into bigger pots. Not all the starts lived through the transplanting, but most of the starts did. I am growing a melon garden with the starts we started. I also found an acorn up the canyon and started it in a little white pot with some potting soil and now it
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Ponies!

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  Ponies! by Lucy age 11 My brother and I were saving and saving money for a pony. We had saved $250. Then I felt very strongly that I should text a woman that my neighbor had suggested I contact about a pony. She said that she had a male that is really nice and she would sell him to us for $600.  With the gelding (which means that the male can't make the  female pregnant), would be $800. I thought that that was cheap.  Then I told her that  we had saved $250. She said that we should play with our pony over the summer and  that she would sell him to us for $250. That's so amazing!!! SO we are going to get  him in a few week and I am so excited!!! Now my brother and I are saving more  money to get the supplies and right now we are not able to get a hold of a person  that has horse panels. I am kind of frustrated because I only have a few weeks to  get ready for him. I will update about it in my next post.
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Making Pottery

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Making Pottery By James Age 12 Our family hired a man to put in some faucets in our gardens and around the outside of our house. When he dug the trench for  the pipes, he dug up clay. We kids gathered it and made pottery. We added quartz from our rocks and already-fired clay into the wet clay. This is a picture of the gray bowl (which is in the next picture) being fired in our wood burning stove. I made two small bowls out of different kinds of clay. I also made a cup, a pot, a letter stamp for sealing letters with melted wax, and a planting pot for my older sister. I pressed plants on the side of the planting pot so it would look like this. I made a pottery wheel, too. It looks like this: The way I made it is: I flipped a rotating cake stand over, taped a piece of newspaper and a piece of plastic on it as a cover for the hole on the bottom of the stand. Then, I got an Erector Set motor and put a rubber band on t
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The Wood Stove

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 The Wood Stove  By Lucy age 9 The four younger kids in our family and our mom were cleaning the place where we put the stuff that we use for fires by the wood stove.   We use paper towel rolls for burning and stuffed some dryer lint in it because dryer lint burns really well.   We stuff it in and then we put some newspaper in on the sides so the dryer lint doesn't fall out.  We do a lot of work to get ready for winter and fall also.  Sometimes we have so much work to do and we don't always get it done.  Sometimes we don't stuff  all the paper towel roles or have to get wood sometimes.   I love the fire because it makes me feel happy and old fashioned.
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Getting Ready For Fall

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By  Lucy age 9 My mom and I were cutting corn stalks.  We put them in a pile and tied them up with twine.  We learned that decorating with corn stalks come from corn shocks. They used corn shocks for food for the cows in the winter.  So we decided to make some for our goats.  I think I will be selling some corn stalks.  Then put them out front so it would look like fall.   When the leaves fall we rake them up.  It is going to look like a fall explosion.   In the fall we get ready for winter also.  We scrape the chimney.  It is really fun.   We have a wood burning stove and we chop our own wood .  It is really fun to get ready for fall. I love being a child of God.  It is always pretty in fall.   He is the o ne who made the world so pretty .  
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Chopping wood

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By James age 11 Every fall my family and I chop wood. We got a splitter from our neighbors and it looks like this. We use a stump at the bottom of the splitter so that the logs can sit on it. that makes it easier to split them. This fall I learned how to chop wood with an ax because my dad got two more axes so more of us could split at the same time to make it go faster. After the logs are split, we stack them at the side of the house. We use the wood for fuel in the winter to warm up the house. We have a wood burning stove to burn the wood. It's my job to bring in the wood, someone is in charge of emptying the ash bucket, and someone is in charge of building the fires. Sometimes in the middle of the night we have to put another log on the fire to keep the house warm. I have learned that some of the logs are naturally split and I usually go for those because they are easier to split. I see symbolism in nature. The symbolism I see is, Satan will
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Family Games

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By Lucy age 9 Every night our family gets together we play family games. It is so fun to play with my family!  It is also exciting because my two oldest brothers are engaged.   We love to play Apples to Apples and Telestrations.  Last night we played games and watched a comedian.  It was so fun to play games with my family.  As a family we love to play games together.  One Monday night we played kickball in our backyard and it was so much fun.
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