Green and gold days

I have been very bad about blogging lately.  It’s been crazy times at work and outside of work I am trying to focus on getting ready for the Fiber Frolic in a week and a half.  Here’s hoping that Memorial Day weekend is a nice one, because I have a lot of work to do! [...]

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Spring has officially sprung

It’s been crunch time at school this past few weeks, and the rain is back again, although we have an almost rain-free Mother’s Day weekend.  On the positive side, things have greened up like crazy, and the nights are not as cold.  I can’t complain, the lambs are growing like weeds and the school year [...]

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Another successful shearing

Today we went over to Hatchtown Farmto help out with the shearing of their 15 ewes.  There were lots of great people there and, as usual, we had more food than we could shake a stick at!  Emily did a great job at de-fleecing the girls and then we had a lovely meal.  The day [...]

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End of winter break

This past weekend was a whirlwind of wonderfulness.  Saturday I went down to Freeport for one day of the NETA Spa Knit and Spin weekend.  I met some friends down there and we enjoyed the whole day at the Hilton Garden.  All kinds of vendors inhabit one of the conference rooms and attendees sit and [...]

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In the company of friends

Both human and 4-legged! As opposed to last year’s shearing, we had a gorgeous day Saturday.  None of those bitter cold temperatures, and what little wind there was, was quite pleasant.  Emily arrived about 10 and we got Fuzzy Lumpkin out onto the shearing floor.  (We usually do the white sheep first, so there aren’t [...]

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Weather and wool

And the weekend is nearly over.  Big sigh!  We had a snow day on Friday and it became a most relaxing 3 days.  As far as the goats go, things seem ok.  Everyone is looking good, although the weather has been very uncooperative.  The rain we had on Friday got rid of most of the [...]

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Big fun day

I have to say that yesterday was probably the highlight of my school vacation.  A group of Salt Bay Treadlers spent the day at our friend Chris’ house.  Last year we took a field trip to Portland, had lunch and then went to a spin-in at the Portland Fiber Gallery.  This year we stayed a [...]

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Maine Fiber Arts Tour Weekend 2011

We have been in real need of some serious rain for awhile, but I am sorry it had to take out the final day of the tour weekend.  Not really take it out, but it was so drippy and full of mosquitoes up in the tent near the top of the driveway, that I moved [...]

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Sugarloaf spinning retreat

Wow!  For the past week I have been meaning to post about the lovely fiber retreat at Sugarloaf ski resort that we had last weekend, organized by the Maine Spinner’s Registry.  It was a great time, hopefully had by all.  A wonderful way to remove ourselves from everyday busy-ness.  The weather started out by being [...]

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A little bit of this and that

I should have been working on this over the winter, but there just never seems to be time.  So in the last few days while our grandson was home with us (a stomach bug), I worked on some cheese equipment organization, some new flavors of cream cheese, and ended up making a bigger mess than [...]

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