Well we are still here, perhaps a bit chilly but we are here. Our farm has been covered in a deep blanket… I mean smothered by a layer of snow. Normally I am all for branches covered in a liberty layer of white and a clean fresh snow to make fresh footprints in however not now. My chickens have chosen to stay in their coop for three weeks now meaning I also haven’t had any farm fresh eggs either. The…
As you all know the first day of fall happened recently. For me this is a not so gentle reminder of the ginormous list of things left to do before winter. My amazing husband Jeff has a full time job outside the farm (required to support my wool habbit) so I try to get as much done alone as possible. This past week I decided it was time to move the sheep closer to the house up on the…
Fall is upon us here in upstate NY and with that the rush to get everything prepared for winter. The girls will need to be sheared next month along with trimming their feet. This will also mean I will have five more fleeces to take to the fiber mill to be made into yarn. We have made a nice area on the hill to allow the sheep to winter closer to the house to make chores easier in the winter….
I’m drying the fleeces in my office and it smells a bit like a clean wet sheep. I also think I’m one of few people who thinks this smells happy to me.
Over the weekend we got so much accomplished to finish up before winter comes. It happened that a warm front is passing through so we were thinking about the coming winter on an almost 80 degree day. Sunday morning we woke up early and got Lola pig into her travel box to take her to the butcher on Monday morning. We chose to do this early so that not only would my Mom and I have Jeff’s help but if…
I have started packing the house which is extremely stressful, I took this opportunity to learn something new. I have started knitting! I started with a hat then for my next project I decided on some nice relaxing…lace. Right, so a giant lace blanket may not have been the most appropriate stress relief. I have ripped out the same row twice now so I moved onto working on the fabric basket tutorial to take a break. This basket is turning…