Gabrielle Gaetzke
12 years old
Seventh grad
When do you do chores? Most of the time.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? Making breakfast or feeding puppies is my favorite. I don’t have a least favorite job, unless the laundry is behind and there is a huge pile of clothes to fold.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Caring for the puppies is my favorite.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. One time we got 2 feet of snow at once.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? My two dogs: Butterscotch and Jackson. My family raises Labrador Retriever puppies.
What do you want to be when you grow up? A mom, a farmer and a dog breeder.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I would have rabbits, milk cows, a lot of dogs, chickens and two pigs. I would also have a beautiful log house.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Cops and robbers.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Cheeseburger soup with fresh bread and butter and a salad.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Swimming.
Timothy Gaetzke
11 years old
Sixth grade
When do you do chores? Anytime.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? I like feeding the pigs and the chickens, but I don’t like doing dishes.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I liked building fences a lot. I don’t like doing calf chores.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. This summer, we hatched chicks.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? The pigs are my favorite. Petunia, Charlene, Bacon and Hogette Porky are some of their names.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a zoologist when I grow up.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. It would have pigs, chickens and Highlander cows.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? My favorite game would be circus. We play that in the front yard.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Roast with mashed potatoes is my favorite.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? I really like to go fishing.
Adeline Gaetzke
9 years old
Fourth grade
When do you do chores? I do chores every day.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? Calf chores are my favorite. When I’m washing the floor and the little kids dump my bucket of water out, that’s my least favorite.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I really enjoy bedding the calves.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. One time, a cow picked up my brother, Timmy, by his shirt.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Tell us about it. Cederic the calf is my favorite. She’s my favorite because she drinks her bottle so well.
What do you want to be when you grow up? When I grow up, I want to be a horse farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. I know it would have a lot of horses.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Hide and seek is my favorite game.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Hamburgers.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? I really like it when we go swimming with the cousins.
James Gaetzke
(holding Sammy)
6 years old
First grade
When do you do chores? When my mom says I need to.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is feeding the chickens with my brother, Tim. My least favorite chore is calf chores, because then I don’t get to stay in the house with Grandma and the little kids.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like climbing on the straw bales and helping Dad in the shop.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Playing in the big bedding sand piles behind the barn and feeding Lemonade the calf.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? The baby chicks in our chicken house. They’re my favorite because they are cute and little.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I’d do taxes or be a farmer.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. On my farm, there would be a big red barn with a pointed roof and a house.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? My favorite game is finding bugs in the yard.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? My favorite meal is baked potatoes with lots of butter on them.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? My favorite thing is going fishing and catching a big shark, or going to the mill pond.
Jenessa Gaetzke
4 years old
Kindergarten
When do you do chores? Other days and some days.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? Cleaning the house is my favorite. My least favorite is putting the garbage in the trash can. Yuck.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like feeding the calves.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Once, after it snowed, we played in the snow for the entire day.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? A little calf named Watermelon. She kissed my nose.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a mom and a baker.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. On my farm, I’d have a black dog in a big pink barn. It would be Mom and Dad’s farm.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like to play dollies.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? I like when we have mac and cheese with noodles.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Playing with my cousins is my favorite.
Henry Gaetzke
2 years old
Preschool
When do you do chores? Every day.
What is your favorite and least favorite chore? I like to feed the calves, but I don’t like to pick up toys.
What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Riding with mom on the lawnmower and putting it away after she is done mowing the lawn.
Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Tractor rides with Daddy on the Case MX.
What is your favorite animal on your farm? Henry, our dog.
What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to hook the Calumet manure spreader up to the Case MX and spread manure.
If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. It would have a Calumet, a husky, a Case MX, a Kuhn Knight slinger spreader and a Case 1586 with a red drill to plant like my daddy.
What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like playing with my Fendt tractor in the house.
What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Hotdogs on the campfire.
What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? I like to play in the sandbox at Grandma’s house.
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