The Journal of Plymouth Rock Ranch

Most of you answered correctly!
Ben…….a 15 passenger van WITHOUT a/c……….in this heat!  Are you nuts??????  Our van’s a/c fan went on the fritz yesterday on the way home from Church.  In this weather, we stopped, bought a new fan motor and headed to a friend’s house/garage to get it fixed before driving home in a [...]

Just to drag out the suspense, can you guess what it might be?  Here are a few hints:

It’s really big
It can get really hot
It will be a great help with the logistics of a big family
We’ve been wanting to get one for along time now

Let’s see what you can come up with:)

Yes, we are all alive and well!  No one has died (no people that is), and there haven’t been major catastrophes that have hindered our blogging.  We have just been so busy that we haven’t had time to post anything.  Our camera was also on the fritz and in the repair shop, so much of [...]

James 4:15
Instead you ought to say,
“If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”

June 2010 was the month of  “If the Lord wills.”  We had so many changes brought upon us that our heads started spinning and we’d say to one another, “If the Lord wills, this is what we [...]

Larissa recently helped with a video for the Elsie Dinsmore 12 book set that Vision Forum carries.  We had a fun morning discussing the books, what the girls enjoyed about them and the lessons they learned from them as they read these books.
They practiced what they wanted to communicate to other young ladies about the [...]

Skylar’s on a good find streak right now.  We’re praying that it continues ; )
Our family’s computer collection consists of a 7 year old Dell desktop computer.  Its been faithful.  But its old.  I call it our Dinosaur.  Its full, its slow, its cranky.  The MS Word program has glitched and won’t print any of [...]

Today was a mop up day after the 10.5″ of rain yesterday in 7 hours. And the couple of inches that fell this morning between 1 and 5 a.m.  Yep, we had more rain this morning.
There was laundry that had been drying on the lines when the storm hit that was beaten into the mud.  [...]

At 4:51 a.m. this morning, I awoke to sheet lightning illuminating the dark morning sky.    The rumble and light was constant.  I wasn’t the only one who had heard it.  I heard the trailer door shut.  It was Callan going outside to gather some feed that had been left out.
The rain started and Callan [...]

That we fell off the end of the earth?  Well, we’ve fallen off the end of the blogosphere but not the earth itself ; )
Life has been absolutely craaaaaazy with little time to blog and journal said crazy life.  We have much catching up to do when the time allows.  Until then, here’s a quick [...]

………..after a loooooooooooooong season away.  I’ve never been away from home this much. It’s surreal in a way, being tossed between two worlds.  How thankful I am to have older children who can hold down the ranch here and keep things either stable or in a forward motion in my absence.
I spent 2.5 weeks in [...]

Well, the Predicaments are coming in fast and furious! I don’t think that the timing is any different than normal. I think it’s probably that we just don’t have any men here to depend upon to diagnose and then fix our mechanical problems.
I had to go to town today to pick up Predicament [...]

The guys are all officially in Washington for 10 days. That means its up to us ladies to keep Plymouth Rock Ranch going. We are praying that the Lord keeps anything major from breaking while they are away!
I took the boys to the airport yesterday for their first commercial flight. I watched [...]

The year 2009 was an exciting year of God’s provision for our family in so many different ways.
We…………

Brought home our first ever dairy cow, our Jersey, Phebie.
Trusted in the Lord for His provision during lean times when no work was coming in early in the year.  This both stretched and grew our faith and trust [...]

Through this week of trying to take dominion over our 432 sq ft domain, bringing order out of chaos, we learned some object lessons about us and God.  Some much needed and will be reviewed lessons, I might add.  Order is so very difficult for us.  Entropy is easy.
We had an object lesson on God [...]

There are many people in our family who enjoy puzzles.  My Mom is one of them.  Try as I might when I was a child, I tried to like puzzles……kind of like trying to like coffee……it just never happened.  Rick’s family likes puzzles too.   I am just puzzled by it!  : )
Think about puzzles for [...]

Remember the houseplans that Roo drew?  And remember how his houseplan featured beds, which were evidently important to him?  And remember how I noted that when the girls and I draw houseplans, we always, always, always focus on the kitchen as that is what is important to us as we spend so much time cooking [...]

One of the things that amazed me when I first met Rick was his ability to build, whether it be an engine or out of wood or whatever materials he had to design and build with.  He learned this from his father, who could design and build anything.  This is really the way God designed [...]

Monday morning found Rick going to Bandera bright and early to look at wood burning stove pipe accessories before he had to fly out.    One thing we’d failed to consider was how we would vent the wood burning stove in the cabin.  The tent had a fiberglass panel and rubber ring that surrounded our stove [...]

Rick, the two boys and Perry, who had worked his busiest weekend of the year prior to coming to help us, were up into the wee hours of Saturday morning working by flood lights that were on our trailer roof, hanging from trees and shining up from the ground.  We were back up at 7 [...]

The promised pictures of Wednesday’s progress on our tent enclosure project were left in our camera at our Thanksgiving Day host’s house : (  So, those will have to wait until we can get our camera back.
Friday brought more helpers, most of whom came with our last minute calls for help.  We are so grateful [...]

The consistent rain has made it difficult, at best, to prepare for this project.  The guys dug footings that kept getting filled in by rain.  The mucky muddiness made working around the tent difficult.  Then on Friday, we got tons and tons of rain.  We weren’t just soggy, we were in mud up to our [...]

Since moving to Plymouth Rock Ranch, we’ve lived many adventures.  We’ve also lived rather unconventionally.
We started out literally camping in our 5th Wheel trailer for the 1st year.  The second year God provided a 17′x26′ canvas deck tent for us to add to our minute 5th Wheel living space for 11 people.   Boy Howdy, was [...]

Saturday, November 22, 2009, officially began our very literal “Week of Thanksgiving.”  This is an exciting week for those of us here at Plymouth Rock Ranch.
The first thing we are thankful for is that Rick flew in on Saturday for the entire week!  He’s been in Washington for his temporary work assignment for 2 months [...]

Well, we’re not letting the cat out of the bag……yet……..but I will tell you that there are some very exciting posts about to come, so stay tuned for our big news!
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The nation watched as Terri Schiavo’s husband fought to have her murdered in her hospital bed and her parents fought to protect her life.  Instead of choosing life, our government allowed her husband to choose death for her with no repercussions from them.  Our government is as culpable in her death as is her husband.  [...]

Rick and the two girls, who visited him for the past 10 days, all came home late Friday night.  Everyone managed to stay up to greet them, except for Boo.  He tried, but ended up crawling into my bed and fell asleep before Daddy got home. Bright and early Saturday morning, he woke up, realized [...]

The girls arrived in Washington State safe and sound.  Rick met them at the airport and took them out to a late dinner before heading to their Washington abode.  The next day while Rick was at work, they walked to the Fred Meyers store a half mile away and became familiar with that store, bought [...]

on my feet…….in my bed……at 1:26 a.m………my groggy mind began to understand that something was not quite right!  Then, with disbelief, I realized that water was not pouring/pouring, but very large dripping/pouring from many different drips around the a/c vent in the ceiling at the foot of my bed.
The rain had started on Wednesday afternoon [...]

Callan and Delaney are up, up and away on, not a beautiful balloon, but rather a Southwest Boeing 737 to Washington to spend 10 days with their Daddy, see new sights and meet and make new friends.
This is the first time Delaney has flown on an airliner so she was excited : )
Delaney turned 13 [...]

When Rick found out he was going to Washington for about 6 months to work, we had to make a decision about transportation while he was there.  The company would get him a rental car for the first 3 weeks, but after that it was up to him to provide his transportation.
Our options were to [...]