I have been working on a store order for a few weeks now and finally got it done this morning. I had dyed our yarn and then overdyed some skeins with indigo, weighed, checked yardage, got the labels on and took 38 skeins to the shop today. On to handpainting again!

200 more bales of hay in the barn, 200 bales of hay. We trucked it back and stacked it up, 200 more bales of hay in the barn!

It was a hot evening for putting hay up (isn’t it always?) but thanks to Steve and Liza we made pretty quick work of it.

We are now within 50 bales of the finish line!

Steve and Liza have moved onto the farm this month…another Antioch connection and wow are we happy to have them with us! They are hard working, cheerful, independent and hearty! Since moving here August 1st they have instinctively accepted the assistant shepherds role, taken on some extra farm chores and made their cabin the envy of Jack and me! We have a fondness for that cabin as we lived there our first six months here, but they have made us think about moving back in, it’s so charming! Steve is a forester, Liza is accepted for the masters program at Antioch New England for Environmental Studies which she begins in September. We have regularly rented to Antioch students, offering reduced rent in exchange for farm chores. Their graduate studies don’t last longer than 2 years and then they move on to jobs in their chosen fields. It’s always interesting for us and we have met some wonderful people across the past 6 years.

Liza and Steve took on the catered lunches for our annual Earthues workshop here at the farm this month, just 2 weeks after they moved in, and set all sorts of culinary records! (Shown here with one of the lunches they prepared). They are a breath of fresh air and we are delighted to have them a part of the farm and our lives.

Well, there may be bugs on some of you mugs but there ain’t no bugs on me!

She’s a smart little ewe…she stays in the dark of the shed when it’s buggy and keeps quite comfortable!