Kids Corner: The Jones Family

Emery Jones
7 years old
Second grade

When do you do chores? I help with chores at night and in the morning.

What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is taking care of the animals, and I don’t have a least favorite. I really like working on the farm.

What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like planting flowers with my mom. They’re so pretty.

Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. My favorite memory is when Miracle was born. Miracle is the daughter of my show heifer, Madness. Miracle was born three weeks early and had to drink from a goat bottle to start. She even lived with us in the house for a while. She was much smaller than a regular calf. She was just 15 pounds when she was born.

What is your favorite animal on your farm? Rose, our dog, is my favorite animal on the farm. I have raised her since she was a puppy at our house.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a nurse and farmer.

If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. It would look almost exactly like the farm I am growing up on, but with one addition: We’d have a horse barn.

What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like to play basketball on the farm. We have a hoop outside the barn where I like to shoot hoops with my cousins.

What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? I really like it when my mom makes mashed potatoes with chicken and gravy.

What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? I really like when we go on trips and get to stay in hotels.

Lane Jones
6 years old
Kindergarten

When do you do chores? I help with morning chores.

What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite chore is scraping the barn driveway. My least favorite is scraping behind the cows in the barn.

What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? I like when I get to spread manure with Dad.

Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. This past New Year’s Eve, my cousin, Blake, came over, and we played pickleball during chores. It was awesome.

What is your favorite animal on your farm? My favorite animals on the farm are the cows. They’re always so nice to us.

What do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a police officer when I grow up.

If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. There would be silos with a barn right next to them. We’d also have a house by the road.

What is your favorite game to play on the farm? I like it when we play baseball. Our yard is big enough, so we play games right there.

What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? I love it when we have tacos.

What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? My favorite off-farm activity is when we go to the Crawdaddy Hotel. When we go there, we get to go swimming.

Cash Jones
3 years old
Pre-school

When do you do chores? Nighttime.

What is your favorite and least favorite chore? My favorite is collecting the chicken eggs. My least favorite chore is anything with the bully cow in the barn.

What project do you enjoy helping your parents with on the farm? Collecting the chicken eggs.

Tell us a fun memory you have of living on the farm. Chore time with Dad.

What is your favorite animal on your farm? The cow who gave birth to the calf I like, Homecoming.

What do you want to be when you grow up? A chicken farmer.

If you had a farm, describe what it would look like. A big chicken coop with cows and a big tractor.

What is your favorite game to play on the farm? Hide and seek.

What is your favorite meal that your mom or dad makes? Chicken nuggets with mac and cheese.

What is your favorite thing to do off the farm with your family? Swimming.