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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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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Days of promise

It’s geting to be that time of year again.  The longer hours of daylight are a delight, and when the temperatures hit the 30s it feels like a heat wave.  This time of winter gets to be pretty messy out there, however.  The snow has started to melt and re-freeze, so the driveway is all [...]

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Winter knitting

It’s been colder than most winters this year so far.  And I am knitting some seasonally appropriate things, but I also fell in love with this glitzy scarf knit up on size 19 needles from sari ribbon. (Halcyon had a simple pattern to give out with the purchase of the skein).  It was a little [...]

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Early morning chores and flurries

Tuesdays are early days for me and the chore routine.  I have to be at work by 7 a.m., so the outdoor gear has to start going on by 5:15 at the latest.  It’s dark.  And cold.  Today was the second day in a row that we had zero degrees or lower.  This morning felt [...]

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Baby it’s cold outside!

Brrr, but clear and beautiful.  I went out this evening to do chores and didn’t even need my headlamp, the moon was so bright.  It’s only about 5 degrees F right now, and it is supposed to get down below zero tonight.  And then a crazy warm storm moves in tomorrow and into Wednesday, with [...]

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The Day after

Last night the storm was still blowing around when I went to bed.  The snow had stopped but we couldn’t tell if the cleanup job we did was good enough.  This morning I got up at the usual time and was just ready to go out and do chores when I got the word that [...]

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Snow day photos

I finally had the time to look into how to do those really cool slideshows that Henbogle puts on their blog!  Hope this works…

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Treadling

Winter spinning is on!  Tonight our monthly meeting of the Salt Bay Treadlers was great, as always.  It’s always difficult for me to rush home, do chores, get the family’s dinner underway and then take off.  But it’s always worth it!  Tonight our usual meeting took place at one of our member’s homes.  It was [...]

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Big snow for the new year

When I got out there this morning there was at least a foot of snow on the ground.  It wasn’t too heavy, so shoveling to the gates was easily do-able.  Running a little later than usual, the girls were really hungry and giving me those faces… but the sheep are never quite as expressive as [...]

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