Not a peep or a baa, just a squeak

That’s right, we still are waiting on Esther!  But it’s ok, the weather is beautiful and it’s the beginning of our April break from school.  I am ready! Last night while I was out feeding our bottle girl her nighttime feed I stayed out in the sheep paddock to enjoy the stars and the balmy [...]

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Winter break

It hasn’t felt like much of a winter.  A break from the craziness of work is welcome, however, as shearing is just the beginning of upcoming farm events.  Everything is now focused on getting ready to welcome our lambs and this is the week that I need to be organizing that. In the meantime we [...]

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Summer is over

It really is.  The practical end of the summer came too fast, and back to work we went.  I am grateful in these crazy times to have a job.  It will be a new challenge and different for me this year, but I am looking forward to it. Hurricane Irene hit us much more gently [...]

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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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Summer catch-up

I have fallen into the summer slump!  After the frenzy of the end of the school year, it’s a huge relief, but also a huge let-down to have time.  Not having to get up at 4:30 in the morning has its definite pluses :*)  But now I seem to be going to bed at all [...]

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Knitting, vacation and more snow

Vacation week can almost be considered over.  After a fantastic start with a wonderful day of shearing and good company this past Sunday, I have spent the rest of the week at home with a head cold on top of an upper respiratory I already had.  Nice to be able to hang out and recuperate, [...]

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Shearing 2011

As usual, I meant to have this post out on Monday.   Sunday was a wonderful and very successful shearing day.  As our friend Pam calls it, the harvest.  It is half of the reason we keep sheep… all the fibery goodness comes to us before lambing, and then our second batch of raw materials are [...]

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A Day to dye for

Vacation week is almost over.  It’s been a busy one, trying to get everything sorted out on the farm that I don’t usually have daylight and decent weather for.  But today I knew it was time to do some fun fiber stuff: I broke out my dye box and got 12 skeins of wool dyed [...]

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Vacation on the farm

April break is here.  Phew!  The weather isn’t as warm as it was a few weeks back, but today was perfect for getting outside to clean out the hay greenhouse and try to get our bottle goat outside with his own species!  He wasn’t very happy with me, but he kept investigating, and the other [...]

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Summer vacation?

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 [...]

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