If you are an accomplished farmer, you might just want to skip this post all together. For the rest of you, please keep reading so you can celebrate my breakthrough accomplishment with me. We have two milk cows, but we have never milked. Now that Isabell was a Jezabell and went frolicking with our neighbor's bull at a very young age, we once again have a milk cow in milk. We have all of our animals in a pen by our barn due to fencing issues. This morning when I was feeding everybody I had a bright idea to see if Isabell would let me touch her milk sac. She has been behaving very well lately for us to pet her and she seems much more pleasant with people now that she has been in the pen for several weeks. Not only did she let me touch her, she didn't care at all that I used her for my learning curve. I pulled, tugged, pushed, and repeated even harder until all of the sudden MILK came out of her. I was thrilled. I pulled and tugged some more and you got it... more milk. I was SO pleased with my accomplishment. I didn't want to take much milk because I know the calf needs it, but every time I went by her I tried again just to make sure it wasn't a fluke or something. She cooperated and I got milk. All I needed was a kitty cat to shoot the milk into it's mouth. That would have been truly bucolic!!grace and peace,
julie
I placed a table cloth on it and now I have storage underneath the table. I am able to store my soap making supplies and my ice cream freezer. I also have enough room to put my vacuum cleaner under there.
After a lot of hard work, this is what the shelter looks like on the outside. By the way, our oldest son who REALLY doesn't like to do building or farm work put on the metal roof. He was quite pleased with himself and his accomplishment! 
This is the end that still lacks a wall. Michael still has to build this wall and the interior walls and he still has to paint it. This will solve several of our animal problems. He will be able to keep two rams in shelters and they will be separated so they won't fight. It will also provide us with the chicken coop to keep better tabs on our chickens. A hawk ate one of our chickens just last week. Plus we are hoping the new fences will keep them out of our garden area. There will also be electricity in the chicken coop so we will be able to get some chicks soon and know that they will be safe. Michael spent about $1500 to make this addition. He is expecting to spend a bit more than that on the other side. This will be a whole lot cheaper than adding a new barn!
Next, I use about a half a stick of soften butter. I spread that all over the dough. Then I sprinkle brown sugar, cinnamon and sugar, and pecans on the dough. (You could also sprinkle raisins or walnuts or dried fruit. My family doesn't like those things so I stick to the basics).
Next start at the long end and roll it up jelly 
When you are finished rolling the dough, you will have a long snake of cinnamon roll goodness.
I then take a 
I put them as close together as I can in the pan so they will rise tall.
Here they are after they have risen for about 30 minutes. They are now ready to bake.
I bake them in a 375 degree oven for about 18 to 20 minutes. Check them after about 15 minutes to make sure they aren't getting too brown.
First start by mixing the wet ingredients. I also add my sugar, yeast, and salt in my mixing bowl. Don't forget to watch the water temperature!
Next, add the Bread flour. I use store bought bread flour, and I always buy the unbleached bread flour.
Next start the mixer. If you don't have a mixer, then you start the kneading process by hand. 
Once the dough has mixed long enough, it will leave the sides of the bowl and form a ball. 
I then place my dough in my greased bowl to rise in a warm oven. I always turn the oven off before putting the dough inside, and if it is too hot I leave the door cracked open. I give myself about an hour to let my dough rise. However, I left them for almost 4 hours this morning because I made the dough and then went to church. The rolls turned out wonderful so it didn't hurt them to let them set longer.
The tools of the roll business are a rolling pin, a biscuit cutter, and a well greased pan. I bake my rolls in the pampered chef stoneware. I don't think you can beat it. In the past, I have used regular round cake pans. Also you will need a little bit of flour so that the dough won't stick to the board or the rolling pin.
The next step is to roll the dough out to the thickness you desire. 
I then place my rolls in the greased stoneware. I like my rolls to rise tall and I have found that if I place the rolls close together they rise taller rather than just spread out in the pan. I then set my rolls in the oven again to rise. This takes about 30 minutes. 
They look like this after I have spread butter on the tops. I wish I could share a roll with you so you would know how soft and flavorful these rolls truly are! The recipe will be coming in the next post!!!
