The summer that wasn’t is almost over (for me, at least). It’s go-back-to-work week, beginning Wednesday. Just as the weather gets really nice! Oh well, I will really appreciate a few more mornings of leisurely coffee drinking and no hustling at chores :*)
Last evening while I was milking, the rains began. Within minutes, outside [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Almost over
Posted in Fiber, Seasons, tagged handpainted yarn, rain, summer on August 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Amphibians win!
Posted in Amphibians, Farm, tagged frogs on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In this summer-of-the-rains, I can only think that the happiest beings in our neighborhood are the frogs. The bug population is thriving, so hopefully the frogs and toads are getting their fill. Everywhere you step, something hops in front of you! Usually they are small, patterned froglets, but two larger specimens have become our good [...]
Summer vacation?
Posted in Farm, Fiber, Fiber Arts, Vacation, tagged spinning, teaching, Vacation, weaving on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I wish I could make a really concrete list of things that I have accomplished this summer. I did take a class at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham which was good, and I am partially re-organized in my studio, but I haven’t gotten much knitting done, and I haven’t gotten my loom warped [...]
Summer visiting with good friends
Posted in Family, Food, Gardens, Vacation, tagged Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, summer on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We have had a busy week since the Fiber Tour weekend. Our friends from NY, Barb and Phil, came up for their yearly visit and we actually had a pretty nice week weather-wise. Yesterday we got over to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, which is someplace I have been meaning to visit for [...]
Maine Fiber Arts Tour Open House
Posted in Farm, Farming, Fiber Arts, tagged Coopworth sheep, goats, Maine on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This weekend we are participating in the Maine Fiber Arts Tour weekend open house. We are part of the two-year tour map, so anyone is welcome to give us a call and come by at any time, but this weekend is set aside as a formal Open House.
We got really lucky with the weather, [...]
Donkey Trek
Posted in Farm, Livestock guards, Pasture, Sheep, tagged Coopworth sheep, donkeys on August 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
We have been discombobulated here on the farm, what with the animal nursing and crazy weather. It’s been an intention of ours to get our guard donkey, Jingle, down to the pasture to be with the rams for quite some time. Since the rams had to come home because of Kyra’s Boy’s leg issues, we [...]
Alternate Reality, Redux!
Posted in Family, Pets, tagged Bear the Lab, dogs on August 4, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Big sigh! Just as we thought things were getting back to normal, Bear’s stitches began to lose their grip. So many of them let loose that our poor old girl had to go in and be anesthetized again on Monday morning and have some different connectors hooked up. So she is home again, with her [...]
