This Land is OUR Land?!?!
· posted 10/11/2008
I can hardly believe it. Is it just a dream or did we really negotiate a deal on some land? We have wanted this for YEARS!
It’s hard to sleep. I keep checking my email for the final acceptance.
Pinch.
OUCH!
There is so much to do! There are plans to make, packing to do, purging to happen and so much more.
So much is about to begin. I am so thankful.
We’ll finally live with our sheep!
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19 Fleeces shorn today
· posted 07/07/2008
Wow, it’s been since the middle of June since I updated. So sad, because quite a bit has been going on.
My title explanation:
We were FINALLY able to get an appointment with the shearer! We had our 4 ewes shorn and we also picked up 14 other sheep fleece (mostly suffolk, most likely to be used for needle felting) as well as a llama fleece (poor Pedro hadn’t been shorn for 6 or 8 years!).
I’ve joined the Tour de Fleece again after skipping it last year (too busy after just opening the shop ). I plan to spin my stash.
I have some sad news that I guess I should post, if nothing else for future reference. We lost Blondie, my favorite shetland sheep. She lambed twins on Monday June 16th, a day after we discovered she was ‘accidentally’ pregnant. One twin only lived a day or two, and Blondie only lived 4 days post partum. We are now bottle-feeding her other twin here at the house. She is sweet.
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Neverending Socks, Spinning, and all sorts of Babies
· posted 04/30/2008
I haven’t finished his socks not even for SAM5.
I have been out to see Mama C’s Twin girls, who are thriving.
And Mama Romney’s Twin boys are doing great, as well.
I’ve been dyeing and spinning Frankie Lee and other bits of wool, etc.
And I’ve been clothing and cuddling the sweet, baby nephew as much as possible.
(That’s the BSJ that I finally found buttons for and finished off for him.)
Otherwise, life goes on, as busy, hectic, wonderful as usual.
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Double Sheep Again This Year!
· posted 04/08/2008
Mama Romney gave birth to twins again! 2 dark ones instead of yin & yang colors. I’ll have photos and more details to share soon.
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Look who just FLU by
· posted 02/19/2008
Yes, bad pun, but a terrible strain of the flu, yes that one, the one that everyone seems to be getting lately, hit our home with a vengeance this past week. I wasn’t even able to escape it. Though my instincts tell me that my immune system was not at it’s strongest what with all of the heaps of goings on going on around here.
Sad news: we lost our Alpaca. I mean he passed away. We have no idea why, nothing stands out, he was just lying on the ground when The Boy went out to feed the animals a week ago. It’s so sad. And now I worry about Durango the Llama – since him and Kokomo the Alpaca were buddies. They never went anywhere without the other – not even to opposite sides of the pasture. I’m going to look into adopting him out to another llama farm in the area – I hear there are a few of them.
The other animals are doing fine – or so I’m told. I haven’t been able to visit them for a couple of months now. Wow, there goes that time flying by my head again. I’ll see them soon, though. We will be moving them back down here across the river soon. They’ll go back to our friends pasture where they stayed temporarily when we first brought them home almost 2 years ago now. We will be thinning the flock during the transition. It’s necessary – part of the business of farming. But not fun no matter how I try to solve the logical puzzle of the best way to go about it.
I’ve been knitting, of course, but not nearly so much as I’d like.
I did finally finish (after re-knitting) the latest Man’s Hat.
And right now I have a special little project that I’m just about done with, that needs to be done and soon. I’ll release details soon. I’m taking a break from it at the moment, in fact. I’ve been knitting really fast because it appears that I will most likely run out of yarn before it’s complete. And we all know that knitting faster prevents one from running out of yarn before a project is over, right? Righeeeet. This is out of special hand-dyed-by-me yarn, and all there is is all that there is to be had. Either it will magically make it or I will have to get really creative and fast!
I feel like sighing much of the time these days. That letting go thing is still bumming me out quite a bit. But with faith, and love, I’ll trudge on through it. Funny how this is one of the absolutely rare stages of anything to do with my children that I have ever wanted to ‘get through’. Almost every other aspect of their growing up I have wanted to go ever-so-slowly, since in reality it all passes much-too-quickly.
Well, back to speed knitting that wee project – wish me extra lengths of yarn luck!
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We have a SURPRISE lamb!
· posted 04/18/2007
Our yearling ewe surprised us and lambed today! She is barely a year old herself, so this was quite unintentional. It must have been a result of that time this winter when the rams knocked the gate off of it’s hinges and were in with the ewes. Oops!
The good news is that mama and baby are doing well!
(Picture to come soon).
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Twins 2007
· posted 03/15/2007
We have TWINS ! ! !
Mama Romney gave birth to twins sometime today.
A white one … ‘All Legs’
And a black one … with a dash of white on the head and the tip of the tail (for now).
These are pure Romney, whereas the the first lamb, Blondie’s, we are pretty sure is our first Shetland (like mama) and Romney cross-breed. Time will tell for sure. And we’re hoping this batch is full of ewe lambs, so that we can have even more lambs!
One more ewe, Mama C (Cleopatra), is left to deliver, we think.
This is so exciting!
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