It's Been Awhile

Boy the last few months have just flown by...We did several festivals, NAILE in November, the very next week went to French Lick til Thanksgiving Eve. Been busy ever since. With the weather we have been feeding some grain along with lots of hay. The rest of the time is spent filling up water buckets....

We have all our breeding just about finished. We are breeding 2 last Finn ewes & 2 more goats... All the goatie girls are looking great in full fleece. Now is when you see what you really have.

I have sent off a load of wool for felting roving. Usually takes a couple weeks to get back. I am working on a load of kid and lamb cut for more yarn...

We have been working on our milk house building everyday. I am lining up my orders to get in a wider variety of Kromski wheels and looms. Will carry warp threads, drum carders, crochet hooks, knitting needles, weaving supplies & more.

We will be at Farmers Market in May. Used 2010 to try to catch up with ourselves...So looking forward to getting back to market in 2011...

Just checked the weather this evening...I can not believe it looks like another storm is coming...Everytime one comes I try to give it the benifit and say oh, it will warm up next week. Guess the joke is on me....You have to look at the positive. Everything that didn't get washed last summer because of no rain is now getting that wash...But kinda like I used to tell my Mom, everything is fixing to rot it has had water on it so long...

ANOTHER DAY IN THE OVEN OF SUMMER...

Terry Donica called & asked if I had time to help her sort some llama fiber. We got at it this morning. Kinda interesting. My first experience of sorting the hair out...of the fiber that is...We got that done with some good ole visiting...Stopped and went to town and ate lunch and came back and finished the last bit. She should have a nice amount to work with.

The last week I have spent all my time behind the water hose and bucket refilling. If not there been helping with hay...We got another nice load in...We have our fingers crossed for one more good load...before winter...

We haven't gotten rain in several days. Between here and Salem they got a good shower we noticed on our way home. Orleans got dumped on this evening & we told it to move on down just didn't listen...I got out and gave lots of plants one more drink of water...I have planted 8 new fruit trees in the spring. I just hope they are getting enough water...

My young goats are looking so good. Really nice curl conformation. Lady Brown is so hot. She gets as close as she can to the fans. I keep telling her to hang in there. I don't won't to shear her for another Month or so...

I watched the weather. They say SALEM SHOULD GET RAIN AROUND 10 tonight. I have about 18 bags of mohair sorted out & ready to wash. I left them out hoping the rain may do the first rinse anyway...I can't wait to get the fleece washed. It should be a good load of doll curls...

Gotta go get busy

It was oh so hot even in Maryland the Beginning of May

Finally got the Maryland pictures loaded in.

This is just a spot in the 15 acre parking lot at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival










What a Crowd. All we could do was hold the camera up in the air to get the picture.












Em's favorite place to eat

Went to French Lick...Street Fest

Soon be a couple weeks ago we went to the French Lick Street Fest. It was in conjunction with the big PGA Golf Tournament. So hot all weekend. We went ahead and came on home Saturday evening. Storms were coming and didn't have the right anchors for the concrete for the Tent...On the way home Saturday evening I did enjoy the drive. The fields are just beautiful with Corn. Seems like there is lots of fields at different heights. The soy beans are like fields of green velvet....Just a nice time of year despite the heat,...

I have been out busy cleaning chicken pen this morning before the heat set in to bad...Got 4 wheel barrell loads out of chicken pen and over in a section of the garden where nothing is growing at the moment...Now it can rain....

I have to get outside. Connie isn't feeling well this morning. Have to go give her a beer drench...

DOG DAYS OF SUMMER

I have been out digging pototoes this morning. They are really nice but oh, the dirt is hard...I hear there will be rain by the end of the week. I think I will just make sure I am ready to dig again this weekend.

We had a wedding last weekend. My oldest is now a married man. They are on their honeymoon now....

We have been having some lambs over the last week. Great big lambs at that...Every evening when it cools down the great lambie races begin...They are so cute.

I am heading back outside to top off some water tanks and clean out on a pen....

BUSY,busy.....

We have been busy with the first part of lambing and kidding. Looks like the next round is fixing to get started...We had a set of twin goats born Saturday. It was a good thing we were here. The little buck was a big one. All came out well in the end. Both are real sweeties.
Last weekend we were in Franklin IN at Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival. We met lots of nice people & saw old friends...Bad part was when we came home to find someone had decided to cut down 12 trees on our corner property. I was busy all last week with that. We have no clue what the deal is. I just get sick when I look out that way and see the big ole gap in the tree line.
I have been working in the garden. Everything is coming right along. Something tells me it will start needing picked right in the middle of the time Mom and Add will be in from TX. I think I will tell her to bring jars so we can fill them...
It is only 3 weeks til the wedding now. I am excited. I told them both the other day I think the day they went and got their marriage license was to me the day a Mom realizes the kid is making big decisions....The ceremony just finalizes it...
This heat is horrible. I hope it is doing this now and when Mom and Add gets here it evens out. Texans can handle heat. I am just not sure about the humidity.
I am suppose to get my bathroom totally cleaned out. We are putting a new tub and shower surround in. That may be the only thing I will miss is the second bathroom. My other bath will go with Hannah/ Jarrod apartment. But we will make it. Just gotta get accustomed to it...
Em has the day off. We are going to run into town and do some errands. I need to get boxes to pack some fabric away.
I better get busy. Cat is wanting out...I will have to get a picture of him. He got a hair cut....