Mountain Prairie Homestead Kids' Blog

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.

by James  age 11 Yesterday morning we went outside to do our outside chores and in our neighbor's yard a horse had given birth to a newborn foal. (Which is a baby horse.)  Our neighbors were at school and work so they didn't know about the foal.   We saw the afterbirth on the ground.  The afterbirth is the sack that the foal was living in inside the mother. The foal was nursing on its mom. The mom is brown with a white ankle. I drew this but realized that goats nurse this way, but horses don't.  They stand up to nurse.   On her head she has a diamond shaped patch of white on her face. Lucy's drawing The foal is brown with white legs and a white face. Lizzy drew this  I love watching the animals come into this world and grow up here.

By Lucy  age 9 We planted a garden by the road and it has lettuce, basil, watermelon, cabbage, spinach and sunflowers.    We love to water it and we love to show our friends.  There is a bridge that goes to a little hill and it is so much fun to go over there and look at our garden.   I am really excited for when they sprout because I have never planted lettuce before.  What I love about it is the sign that says "Kids' Garden".

The Treasures By Lizzy, age 6 We made treasures.  They were made of sticks and rocks.  James, Lucy and I built them.  We did an eyeball of a dinosaur and some teeth.  We also made a brain and some other cool stuff out of rocks. We buried them in the dirt by our house.  It was fun to dig it and put stuff in the holes. This is me using my shovel.  My Nana gave it to me for my birthday! We used sticks to make an "X" to mark where they were buried.  We dug them back up and pretended we were finding buried treasure.  I like to play outside.  I like being outside more than inside because it's fun that we can swing and slide and go down the fire pole. I have lots of dirt to play in! We find cool stuff in the rock piles.  In the dirt we find clods that look like teeth.  I can't find those things inside.  There are no rocks or dirt inside.  Well, okay, there is some dirt inside sometime...

By Lucy   age 8 I planted a garden on top of the hill and it has brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, and onions.  All of them have sprouted.   I am really happy because my birthday is in thirteen days and I am turning nine.  My mom loves brussels sprouts so that is why I planted them.  Cabbage and brussels sprout leaves look the same because brussels sprouts are basically a miniature  cabbage.  It is really fun growing my own garden.

By Chase age 13 Spring brings, along with many other things, the time to prune everything. My favorite plants to prune are the grapes. A few days ago, Mom and I pruned all of them together. We cut off most of the newer growth and any vines that aren't growing the direction we want them to. Sometimes it feels like you are cutting off the whole plant! Some of the vines are so long and tangled that we have to cut them into three or four sections just to get them away from the fence and other vine. The vines might be really long, others might be tiny. Some were even 16 feet! As we were pruning, Mom and I thought of an analogy with the grapes. As you prune a plant, it seems like you are hurting it. We have to cut off so much, sometimes it even looks like we have killed it. This is kind of like our lives. We are tested, hurt, and sometimes it feels like we are going to die. But in the process, all of the excess stuff of our lives and...

by James, age 11  When the females have puppies and the puppies start eating food, Chase and I take the moms outside into the big kennel for the day so that the puppies will get used to not having there mother with them.  In the summer I am responsible to feed and water my portion of our sixty huskies and Chase and Lucy do the rest of the dogs.  In the fall, we train the dogs by dog carting. The carts are metal and benches are wood. The driver stands on the back. I help harness the dogs. This year I am going to drive.  We train and exercise the dogs so that when they are up in the mountains they know the commands and are ready.