The Journal of Plymouth Rock Ranch

We have some dear friends, the Donckels Family, in California. We were blessed to hear that a young man had approached Heather’s father about getting to know his oldest daughter better.   We were blessed to hear of the the announcement of Heather’s courtship with Austin, to get reports on how the [...]

Michele had her sixth surgery at 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning, 8-31-08.
They went into her chest through her side (they didn’t want to open her chest up again) to clean up some clots and other bleeding issues.  They had to literally scrape some thickened pools of blood instead of
being able to drain it all. They [...]

pumping out of our ground, up a pipe and into our 3000 gallon water storage tank is heavenly : )
Pipe Creek Water Well came out on Tuesday, shocked the well, installed a precast concrete floor around the well shaft and lowered the water pump into the ground. Wednesday night, Rick was able to [...]

Yesterday afternoon our family went to the Ringer Family’s property so the boys could mow an acre of grass for them. Rick and I had to go into town to pick up our daughter at the airport and needed to make a
Costco run before her flight arrived. Isla asked us to leave the [...]

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This update came from Michele’s Sister-in-Law, Isla:
On Saturday, one of Michele’s doctors, a surgeon, came to check on her.  He noticed that one of the chest tubes they had put in the day before (which was placed in a spot that did no good) had not been fixed yet.
She had a significant amount of fluid [...]

Now that we have the well hole drilled and have confirmed that we have water in the hole, we have too much water above the hole!   It keeps raining and raining and raining…….. The ground is mucky, icky, muddy and messy.
The hole is drilled. We have water. The metal sleeve was installed [...]

A couple of weeks ago, Callan was outside uprooting a tree that the chickens had managed to kill by getting inside the protective wire and unearthing the roots.
This came up with the roots:

Callan actually came in carrying this mammoth grub in her hands. Eeeeewwwww! and Double Eeeeewwwww! Look at the size of this [...]

As a child, my mom and grandmother made the best rice pudding.  My children don’t like rice pudding though, which I don’t quite understand.  But, since they don’t I haven’t made it in a very long time.  If I make it, then I have to eat it and I don’t need any more sweet temptations [...]

out of the front of your front load washing machine, and you’re days a week+ behind in your laundry for a family of 10, what do you do?
1. You get your mechanic husband and sons to investigate.
2. Your mechanic husband and sons order parts to fix said gushing washing machine.
3. You pack [...]

Michele’s surgery was successful with the doctors goal of removing the right pump.  She is still critical but stable. 
The doctors gave encouraging news that they hope to take out the left pump sometime next week.  Michele does have an infection which the doctors were able to identify and are treating [...]

Michele is going to have surgery about 1pm today to remove the pump in the right side of the heart. The left will still remain. The doctors are hoping to be able to close her chest as well. This is a delicate, serious open heart surgery. Please continue [...]

The Peanut Gallery Watching and Learning
 

 
The beauty of God in water flowing from the ground
and
The beauty of God in water vapors in the skies.
 
What an awesome day viewing the beauty of God!
 

Michele went through a procedure today to remove the port (where the IVs have been inserted) in her leg. They moved the port to her chest. She is still critical, but stable.  She will be heavily sedated for the next 8 hours. 
Pray for wisdom for her doctors as they would like [...]

This morning we kept hearing the children say, “Is that the well drillers I hear?” or “I think I hear the well drillers coming!” or “Are they here yet?” and finally, “They’re here!!!!! I hear them coming!!!!! They’re here!!!!!” And they were here at about 10:30 a.m.
The morning [...]

The Life of a Well Driller : )
 

Spewing
 

The Downhill Flow
 

Looking Uphill
 

The Lake of Foam
 

Swirly Foamy Stuff
 

Drying Foamy Stuff
 

Wet Foamy Stuff
 

More Swirly Foamy Stuff
 

Cracking Foamy Stuff
 

Limestone Dust Decorated Mountain Laurels
 

Close-Up
 

Creative Photography
 
Y’all are ready to hear the results of our well drilling, right?
Well, y’all will have to wait, just like us!
But, we will tell you the current [...]

Holstein was totally oblivious to the well drilling adrenaline flowing here today. She found a box a new washing machine part arrived in and claimed it as her own. She has been in this box most of the day. She has washed herself and stretched and then gone back to sleep for [...]

well drilling has ceased for the day. The sound of well drilling is a beautiful sound, but boy is it n.o.i.s.y when they are drilling!!!
We started our day out by forming a circle around our well site and praying for God’s blessing to be upon the work we were starting. Imagine this [...]

Do you aspire to disciple your children and grandchildren so that they will thrive before the Lord rather than just “survive” the influences of our spiritually bankrupt culture? If so, now is the time to equip yourself for this task. For our children to be mighty in the land, we must embrace a long-term [...]

I have gathered just a smidgeon of information on Biblical Wells.  I would like to study more, but would like to share just a little of what I’ve learned so far about Wells in the Bible.
The first thing I realized is that the wells in the Bible were given names.  Names with meaning.  Wells were [...]

We still have no well……….But, we do have more information on wells in our neighborhood than we did last week.
Another well drilling company is drilling on our new next door neighbor’s 10 acres. Rick went and had a talk with the drillers on Monday. We were told that they were hitting caves about [...]

This was the email update we received late Saturday evening, 8-9-08:
Michele had surgery this afternoon a procedure to remove blood clots that were clogging the line and drain tubes. They did not close her chest back up (giving more room) so that the tubes would not be pinched which may be the [...]

But not ours : (
We were told we were on the Pipe Creek Water Well’s schedule for either 2 weeks ago or this past week. But, with rain and other things, his schedule slipped some. So we are waiting on our well. He’s been drilling about 3 lots down this week though, [...]

Here is the latest update on Michele which we received on Friday evening, August 8, 2008.
Michele was taken off the dialysis machine about six this morning (Friday) but her kidneys have not started to function yet. The doctors said it might take a little time. She has been given nourishment [...]

The statement we make with our dress is one many of us don’t think about these days.  Dress in our society, like Christmas, has become a societal commercialized commodity, and we’ve lost the Biblical roots and doctrinal reasons as to why the human race wears clothes in the first place.
The uniform of a police officer [...]

As a homeschool family, we are always thrilled to find resources to help us learn and understand the world God created, the world in which we live. These resources often stimulate a natural deeper study of the subject at hand and piques our interest so we learn and retain what we’ve learned much better [...]

Since Michele’s last surgery, yesterday afternoon, she has been in stable but still critical condition.
The doctors were able to remove some debris and blood clots, place sutures to stop bleeding, and close up her chest.
Some positive things:

She is now only on 50% oxygen.
She has been taken off blood pressure [...]

Please continue to pray for Michele and her family.
Sunday morning the update on Michele’s condition was small improvements. Sunday afternoon the report was the doctors had to remove Michele from dialysis for some reason unknown to me and her vitals took a bad turn.
Sunday night around 10 p.m. word came that Michele had 10-12 [...]

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