Vaughnshire Farm

Without the time to actually write the articles I thought it would be fun just to share the titles that would have been posted this week.

• Church is Good
• Patrick’s Chicks and Ducks Arrive; “Mostly” Dead
• It’s a Boy
• The Cow is Bred
• WordPress Upgrade Goes Awry
• Two Goats Bred; One Dead
• The Truck is Broke
• The Kingdom is Now
• An Average Week at Vaughnshire

As the seasons change, so does life and in our case it has been quite an eventful season change.  We have been extremely busy lately around here on the farm.  Fall has set in with a chill in the air and a feast of color.  We have several interesting posts on chicken tractors, milk barns, herbs, homeschooling, Thanksgiving turkey and the sort that are on the verge of being finished but as of yet have not been completed with the pictures.   

We had some hosting issues and the site was down for most of the day today.  Everything is back on-line and seems to be running smoothly.

In addition look for some updates from the road soon.  Ask yourself this question.  How does a family of 9 with seven small children, 2 cows, 3 goats, a pig, a turkey, 4 guineas, and a plethora of cats, dogs, and chickens take a family vacation?

The answer:  Very Carefully.

We’ll be posting pictures from the road soon.  But here is a hint, it involves a “Cow Sitter” a “Farm Sitter”, and a large vehicle.

Dr. D. James Kennedy died at age 76 earlier this morning.

If you think being reformed is not about evangalism, then you must watch this tribute to him and his service to God.

If it seems like there is a bunch more content on the Blog today, it’s not because we were extremely prolific over night. I managed to import the content from josiahproject.com and birthdynamics.com today.

So now we are officially, one big happy; technology savvy, cow-milking, credobaptist, pig slopping, southern, home schooling, evangelical, local economy building, faith confessing, egg collecting, pro-life, reformed, community focused, pastured beef raising, quiverfull, agrarian, Tennessee, family blog.  If any of these things interest you stick around you’re bound to find something you’ll enjoy.

If you’re not familiar with Josiahproject or Birthdynamics, we hope you enjoy the new content. If you have links to either of these sites, they will continue to work for another 30 days until we remove the content. The best bet would be to update the links to the content’s new home on Vaughnshire as soon as possible.

If you see any strange rendering of the articles or graphics, please make a comment here and let me know. Wordpress is good technology, but it’s only technology so I’m sure there will be some things that need to be tweaked.

We are very excited about this announcement!  The Josiah Project has incorporated a new functionality that gives our readers the ability to subscribe to specific posts, categories, or the entire Josiah Project site.  Check it out here.  The goal of this new tool is to allow each reader an option to be notified when new content is posted to the site.  In addition, it allows Josiah Project enthusiasts the flexibility of reading posts on-line or to have the entire post or a summary of the post delivered to their inbox!

This is going to be an important tool as we implement another new technology which will greatly enhance the original purpose and goals of The Josiah Project. Look forward to this announcement later in the week. For now if you are not familiar with the goals and the vision of The Josiah Project, I would recommend this article as a great starting place.
http://www.josiahproject.com/2006/01/13/the-purpose-of-josiah-project/

In addition, the link for managing your subscription options is located here.
http://www.josiahproject.com/subscription-management/

There is a comment section at the bottom of each page on Josiah Project that will e-mail an administrator. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to post them in the comments section on the bottom of the page that you wish to comment on.

Of course, the original design of the concept of the BLOG is to allow others to subscribe to the content via an RSS Feed.  We still support this and recommend this options as a great way to keep up with the latest posts.  However, if your still an e-mail reader and prefer to work with a tool you are familiar with, we now provide you with that option as well.

To read via RSS Feed, point your favorite BLOG reader here.  To subscribe and receive e-mails, click here.

Paul has been working on a new website www.familyworkforum.com It is a website that encourages family entrepreneurship. Family Work Forum, is a meaningful exploration of legitimate opportunities for families to turn their hearts towards home while still earning a living to put food on the table.

It is still very much in the baby stage, but he hopes to build over the next few months to something substantial. The FAQs are still being written.
The Family Work Forum will contain a wealth of business and entrepreneurship ideas and articles. It also will be home to many blogs on various subjects for business owners to post information, updates, ramblings etc. etc.

The Birth Dynamics blog will be moving over to The Family Work Forum soon. I have already posted a couple of repeat articles out there. http://familyworkforum.com/?q=blog/3

I will be posting Annabelle’s birth story on my website. I will update it later on in the week after I get back some more information from the midwife. During labor, she keeps a pretty detailed labor flow chart. I asked for a copy to put in Annabelle’s pregnancy journal and baby book.
For now…here is the link to the rough copy of her birth story with some pictures: Annabelle’s Birth Story

I’m excited about the all new look of Josiah project. We have the Blog up and running, but it will be awhile before we are fully 100% operational. In the mean time be sure to check out Vision Tennessee for some hard hitting articles.

EDITORS NOTE: Vision Tennessee has been merged with josiahproject.com as of May 10th, 2006.

Excellent and must haves for mommies— I ordered 2 of Shonda Parker’s books off her website and have almost finished The Naturally Healthy Pregnancy, The Essential Guide To Nutritional and Botanical Medicine For The Childbearing Years. Here is the link for the books: Naturally Healthy Website

The other book is called Mommy Diagnostics, The Art Of Taking Care Of Your Family. It is a huge resource for everything you ever wanted to know on how to treat common ailments herbally and naturally.