The Journal of Plymouth Rock Ranch

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 [...]

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Thank you Peter for taking this stand.  Know that we love you and will be praying that God will go before you and bless your endeavors.
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There were two important flights today in the Seargeant Family.
The two girls successfully completed their flight home today and they’ve been appropriately welcomed home and have officially greeted their new kitchen : )  Larissa said that it “Almost feels like a real kitchen!”
And…..drumroll please!   The Boeing 787 successfully completed it’s long awaited and overdue 1st [...]

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 [...]

Today is a big day.
First off, the first flight of the day:   Rick will deliver Ashley and Larissa to the Seattle airport so they can fly home after spending 10 days in Washington with their Dad.
And then there’s the second first flight of the day:  At 10 a.m. Pacific time, on Tuesday, December 15, [...]

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 [...]

This short video is a great object lesson to help us understand how, as fallen sinners, we choose to sin, but we do not have the ability to choose the consequences of each sin, which generally reach much farther than we anticipate or realize.
I might add, that by the same token or object lesson, we [...]

We were so blessed to have David Ringer, one of the three Grandpas in our Church (including Rick), come help us on our building project.  He was a great sounding board, thought processor, additional supervisor and worker, and all around keep-er-movin’ guy that we needed on the job.  On top of that he brought his [...]

The animals were thrown a little off kilter by our Week of Thanksgiving.  It was a little disconcerting to have so many visitors over the course of 5 days.  Darby, for one, loved it.  The cows?  They had to go sniff the new cars, watch the walls being put up and as the cabin began [...]

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 [...]

There is a large center beam that runs down the center of the cabin roof.  It’s made of two engineered beams that we had to glue and screw together.  Here’s some pictures of that process:

Mr. Torres and Crew with the Glue

Grandpa Ringer, Ben and Pooh
What Teamwork that Spans the Generations!
I Love This Picture!
Now comes the [...]

Ready….

Set…..

Go!

The Last Wall Stands Up!

Contemplating the Changes in Our Lives
A Memorable Moment
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What it looked like prior to removing the tent.

Uncovering our kitchen and living area!  Now, we are totally committed!

Camera Shy?

Revealing the Sheeting

Oh Yeah!

The Canvas is All Down : )

Exposed to the Elements

He’s Determined to Finish Getting the Tent ALL the Way Down

Mission Accomplished with a Smile : )
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With the cold storm headed our way, not only did we need shelter, but we also needed some wood cut.  This crew cut some great wood!

No, he didn’t help with the firewood, but where else would I put this picture?
Thank you guys for the cut and stacked firewood!  Every time we start a fire in [...]

Well, it’s taken me awhile to get more photos uploaded for y’all.  Future posts will explain what’s kept us too busy to get much posted on the blog, so stay tuned!

Notice, they’re still in the tent in these two pictures.

See transparent framed walls?  The tent is gone!  Making progress : )
Gathering for prayer
Breaking for Lunch

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Marie-Madeline Studio is having a quilt give away from Nov. 18 – Dec. 13th.  For a teaser I’ll show you one of the two choices.  To see the other choice, visit their website, http://mariemadelinestudio.typepad.com/
Thanks Marie-Madeline Studio for the wonderful giveaway!

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These pictures are from Jason, who took them on his cell phone while he was here helping on Friday.  Thank you, Jason!

Daniel, Ryker and Mr. Marshall squaring up the end wall.
Notice the tent in the background with the first wall that was completed and installed on Wednesday with the help of Jay and Paul Braymer [...]

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 [...]

While visiting Daddy in Washington, Roo watched his daddy draw framing plans for our tent enclosure.  He decided to try drawing some plans of his own.  He found a ruler and a pencil and went to work.  This is what he came up with:

Notice that Roo’s priority inside those walls and roof is beds.  The [...]

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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