I was in Connecticut for the CT Sheep, Wool And Fiber Festival last weekend. I arrived Friday afternoon to beautiful spring colors, glorious sunshine and 80 degree temps. The show was wonderful, as usual, lots of familiar faces and happy shoppers! I had planned to...
Everytime I dye with weld those words come to mind! And we are having wowie zowie spring/summer weather to go with it. Weld!
I couldn't resist this one!
Getting ready for the CT Sheep and Wool and then the NH Sheep and Wool so the past few weeks have been pretty busy between fleece prepping to carding fiber to dyeing yarns and making labels, ordering inventory ad nauseum....this is my dining room and the shed off the...
Jack's been busy tilling and reseeding pastures this weekend. We are having a glorious stretch of spring weather making it perfect for getting ahead of such projects. Now that the seed is down, we'd like a nice long, lazy day of rain. Just one a week for good measure!
It's been a bit busy of late, getting ready for the spring shows. I spend countless hours every day at the computer. Webster often comes to offer solice and bring a calmness to my desk. He likes to lay down (as you can see) on my desk and bathe under the heat of my...
Been busy skirting fleeces all weekend along with dyeing pounds of yarn and spring raking! The weather has been pretty nice for all three actually. Here is my temporary home in one of the barns. Fleeces lined up like cordwood! Here are the fleeces ready to go on...
With my mind turning to fleece, now that the sheep are sheared, I thought it would be good to show how well the Unicorn fiber products work for cleaning fiber. We offer the line of products in our online store www.longridgefarm.com/store.asp and you also can read...
Ah, shearing day, finally. Friday we got the shearing area all ready replete with hay for the sheep to eat as they were done being sheared. We don't feed them before shearing because then their rumens would be full and it's like eating a Thanksgiving dinner and then...
Today is Charlotte's birthday, our April fool! Two years old, another lamb from Memphis and one of the best in personality, conformation and color, a lovely gray brown fleece. CVM fleece gets softer and darker with age. Charlotte is long legged which I prefer in the...
