Goats Milk Soap

Goats milk soap

4 cups Goats Milk (can use water)
48 oz of lard or shortening
32 oz coconut oil
16 oz olive oil
12 oz lye

In a container put goats milk and then the lye.  (I do this outside because it has a strong smell)
Stir it till the lye dissolves. ( It will turn almost an orange color)
The lye mixture becomes hot.... add to it your lard stirring till it melts.
Then add the coconut oil and olive oil.  Stir till it traces......
At this time you can pour it into a mold or container, or I add at this time 1 1/2 cups oats and 1-2 teaspoons of cinnamon or cloves.
This will fill about a 11X17" container.  Grease your container with either your coconut oil or lard.  Pour your soap into the container.  Then cover it with a lid & a towel.  Let set for around 2 hours, and then cut into bars.  They won't be all of the way set yet, but if you don't cut them you won't be able to get the knife through it later~  Leave for a few more hours till they are set.... take out and let air dry a little longer.  Your soap is now ready to use!  It does last longer if you let it air dry for around 3 weeks.....
Hope you enjoy this natural soap~  we sure do!

Bread day again~

Around here it seems like we are needed to make more bread several times a week.  Nothing beats the taste of nice hot bread out of the oven though!

here is the bread raising!

I posted our recipe on another post~  Hope you are all enjoying the last few weeks of winter!

Laundry~

Today we needed to make some more laundry soap.  With a larger family we sure do go though alot of that stuff!  Most days we have to do 4-5 loads of laundry to keep it done up.  I thought I would post some pictures and the recipe for you~

Laundry Soap~

1 bar of Fels Naptha

3/4 cup washing soda

3/4 cup of borax

Grate 1 bar of fels naptha into a pot and add 6 cups water.  Heat till soap is melted.

fels naptha grated into a pot~

then add the borax and washing soda.  Stir until dissolved.  In a large container add 4 cups hot water and the hot soap mixture.  Stir, then add 1 1/2 gallons of cold water. Stir it.  

Your soap is now ready to use! 

You can leave it in the large container or put it in another container at this time!

To use it add 1/2 cup of laundry soap per load of laundry!

Enjoy washing~

Baby Goats

We have had a few busy days with baby goats being born! Thought you might like to see a few pictures!! Looks like we are going to have lots of goats milk around again~

Elli kissing one of the new baby boys!

another baby boy~

M~M holding the only little girl born so far!

A few of the mommas or soon to be momma!

Elli playing with one of last years babies

Lubby with her little girl Dazzle and Sparkles watching them

ABBY drying off Sprakles baby, another little boy~

the new mommas with their babies!

TRYING TO STAND FOR THE FIRST TIME!

Elli is making sure they have enough straw down for bedding!

Hope you enjoy this little peak into part of our lives!!  Blessings~

Snow?

Our children have really enjoyed the little bit of snow we got the other day!  Thankfully we had some drifts for them to actually have some snow to play in!  They were still out tonight when it was almost dark out!

Birthday Party!

Today is our youngest daughter's 3rd birthday!!!  She had a great day!  She got to take cupcakes to church to share with her Sunday School Class, then came home and had one of her favorites for dinner pizza, along with a big birthday party!!  Well, really we only had one other family over and Grandpa and Grandma.... which made a grand total of 19 of us!  Here are a few pictures of her special day!!

She is ready to crash after a busy day!

Projects~

As the guys have been doing a few projects in the barn for the young heifers (the girl calves!) I have been starting to feel I had better start getting projects done in the  house before our newest addition joins our family!  We are on the countdown now!  Under 2 months left!

This was taken at 30 weeks!

The other latest around here is we were asked if we could be "job shadowed" for a year by one of the local papers.  They have been out twice now.  I really think this is going to be a neat thing for our children!  They get a chance to show what farming is like from a young persons point of view!!  Hopefully next month it can be on us doing maple syrup.  This winter has been really mild, so we aren't real sure of how good our season is going to be......  I guess time will tell on that one!

Until next time......