Mountain Prairie Homestead Kids' Blog

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 .  

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