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 [...]

The Light Switch Came On from NCFIC on Vimeo.

A few weeks ago Skylar was working at a house in a rather nice subdivision. He noticed an older, out-of-place, obviously hadn’t-been-driven-in-a-long-time 1991 Honda Civic sitting in the driveway. We’ve been keeping our eye out for an older good mpg vehicle for the boys to drive. Driving the F-350 or E-350 into [...]

Thirty years ago, we started our marriage by honeymooning in the Northwest in Sun Valley, Idaho.   We were surrounded by cold, snow and skiing.  Thirty years later, we found ourselves celebrating our 30th Anniverary in the Northwest.  But this time it was in Washington and the weather was unusually springlike and warm.  In fact, we [...]

Perspective – A glass through which objects are viewed.  ~ Websters 1828 Dictionary ~
We all have a glass through which we view life.  The glass through which we view life will determine our judgments, beliefs, decisions, reactions, words, deeds, likes, dislikes and more.
Another term for perspective is worldview.  In other words, through what glass, or [...]

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 Scene From Afar

This is Fun!

Determination

Everyone Helped : )  Even His Tongue!

Discipleship at its Best

I Spy the Photographer

Taking a Break

Roo Built this Airplane All By Himself!
You Sit on it and Then Rock Back for Takeoff and Rock Forward for Landing!
He Must be a Builder’s Son : )

Pooh Bear Worked Too

For All of the Planning and [...]

When one works in the dark, one must have some light.
So before it got dark, Ryker and Grandpa Ringer worked on getting the lights ready for service.

Great Pose!

The Worksite All Lit Up
We Had One Light in a Tree
One light on the Trailer Roof
and
One Light on the Ground
We Just Kept On Working!

Even the Little Guys Helped [...]

Ready….

Set…..

Go!

The Last Wall Stands Up!

Contemplating the Changes in Our Lives
A Memorable Moment
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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 [...]

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 [...]

A couple of years ago I met a visitor at church.  She and her family were visiting our assembly while on their vacation.  She mentioned to me an online Christian women’s group with whom she fellowshipped.  Then I heard of this same group from another friend.  I decided to join and through that cyberspace [...]

Jonathan V. Last wrote an article for the Wall Street Journal entitled “Duggar Economics:  The Costs of 19 Kids.”
We first met the Duggar Family at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival almost 3 years ago now.  Our daughters were helping with registration for this event and thus met the Duggars when they arrived.  One [...]

That’s the number one rule for a salesman. Ryker seems to have some of my dad’s salesman’s genes in him. He’s very good at finding the really good buy so he can buy low. And then he’s turned these items around and sold them on eBay to fund other items he’s been [...]

God uses the Body of Christ in so many ways, one of which is to bless others in the Body.  I’ve already posted on how the Braymer and Ehlinger Families blessed us.  But there’s more.
When the DeLadurantey Family heard that the girls were going to be re-enactors at the Reformation 500 and would be making [...]

……from the Boston Reformation 500!  What a blessing it was!  Rick arrived back in town on Monday afternoon in time for his afternoon shift.  The rest of us arrived home at 1:30 a.m. this morning, just a tad bit travel weary.
We had a wonderful trip visiting with friends on the way to Boston and on [...]

This past week has been spent getting ready for our Reformation 500 trip to Boston.  Whew!  It is not easy getting 11 people, a tent and trailer, and all of our animals set for a trip like this!  We are currently in the midst of the last minute organizing and cleaning up so our place [...]

We were given family tickets to the last night of the San Antonio Symphony by a customer.  What a special treat!  We didn’t book any work for our special day.  We had a leisurely morning at home getting a few necessary things done.  Then we headed to town where we went out to dinner at [...]

If you haven’t yet read the post on our almost head-on accident, you might want to take a gander.
Picture this white van with our 4 older children going this way, another truck, in their lane going the other way, and a semi truck in the lane where the small truck should have been, all rounding [...]

Sunday night I found myself in the trailer without my phone.  I was too tired or lazy or both to head back out to the tent to get it, though it nagged at me a little.
Monday morning, Rick left for work first, followed by the 4 older children heading to work and dress making in [...]

The guys have been having to get up at 5 a.m. and be out of the tent by 5:45 a.m. to get to their jobs.  This makes our usual breakfast mode of operations of oatmeal or homegrown eggs obsolete for them.  We’ve tried to have easy-to-grab breakfasts ready for them, but we’re having a hard [...]

I had a hard time getting my fuzzy brain to work correctly on our Saturday morning workday.   I was overwhelmed with fixing our goat issue (read here and here).   Plus we had several families coming over for a workday at our property to help us get some things in order for which we needed [...]

The Sweet Face

The Pick Your Nose With Your Muzzle Face

The Seriously ~ Don’t Mess With Me Face

The Trying to Look Ferocious Face

The Toothless Grin Face

The I’m a Ham Face
If THAT ain’t the truth!
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Another year has passed in the life of Jackson.  He’s waited an entire year for the day he would turn 7.  And, we’ve all waited with him.
The intensity of this wait turned up a notch or two when Harrison’s birthday came in November.  We had to get the calendar out and show Jackson when his [...]

Coming up with names here is an ordeal.  So many ideas with so many people with so many opinions, or on the other hand we sometimes all have “name block.”  But, this time it all just fell into place.
We were calling the weak doeling Floppy as she was….well……floppy!  I jokingly suggested Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail, [...]

This past week Callan and I had the opportunity to attend a goat milk cheese and soapmaking class in Uvalde for 4 days.  We had a great time and learned so much.  The timing of this class is so perfect with Phebie calving last Friday, Leah due to kid on Wednesday and Festival due to [...]

On a Stem

On a Leaf

On a Wild Holly Bush

On a Cedar Tree

On a Spider Web

A Delightful Misty Morning
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Proverb 27:1
Boast not thyself of to morrow;
for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
 
Proverbs 16:9
A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Each day, we make our plans, we make our to-do list and we go about our day. But, there are those days where God says, [...]

Brothers!
 
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Last week I received a phone call from a friend. She has a friend who was the recipient of a lot of bakery rolls and breads, mostly whole grain breads, rolls and bagels. She wanted to know if we wanted any.
I had just been thinking that we were out of bread, needed to [...]