Pasture season has begun for grazing and haying. The first few days of June we took the flock to one field during the day and brought them back in the evening to their winter barn. Sunday when they came back to the barn, we'd no sooner gotten there when Tybee lay down...
To Laurel, just want to say hi...so glad you are enjoying the fleece of my labors...my shepherds talk to me everyday about this and that...they wipe the hay from my neck, adjust my coat, change it when it gets tight, scratch my chin and backbone as needed. Life is...
This weekend is the Massachusetts fair in Cummington and I went yesterday with Diane Golding of www.dropspindle.info as shoppers, not vendors! What a treat to just browse and touch lots of luscious fibers and see incredible hand crafts. We saw lots of vendor friends...
What a difference a year can make. One of our hay suppliers called yesterday to let us know we could pick up 1st cut hay from the field this afternoon. May 25th, pre-Memorial Day, just right! Last year our 1st cut wasn't ready until July 1st! We had so much rain in...
Yesterday I spent the day in Jamaica, VT with lots of other fiber- related vendors such as Green Mountain Spinnery www.spinnery.com Golding Fiber Tools www.dropspindle.info Grafton Fibers www.graftonfibers.com White Mountain Farm, Maybelle Farm, Lovejoy Handwovens who...
Jamaica, VT sillies, just for the day!Come to the Jamaica Fiber Festival today www.jamaicafiberfestival.org It's a good day to get a fiber fix and take a country drive all at once! We'll all be there from 10-4!
The apple trees are in full blossom this week and the scent is delicious! Even Sidney seems to be enjoying it! The lilacs are also just beginning to bloom. We have had lots of sun the past few weeks and now some wet, cool weather so all of the trees and plants have...
We had another picture perfect day Sunday, Mother's Day, for the festival. It started out crsip and a bit breezy but warmed up nicely into the high 60's by noon. I didn't even get to leave my booth all day so didn't get too many pictures. It was a busy day! Across the...
NH is having a fabulous two day event this year! The weather could not be better~65 to 70 degrees and sunny skies.Thank you to all who stopped by to visit our booth today to learn about our sheep, Earthues natural dyes and to just visit!We had a naughty sheep back at...
It's almost time again for the NH Sheep and Wool Festival, our 31st annual! As compared to last year's horrific rains and massive flooding it looks to be a nice weekend of cool temps with some sun!I have finished skirting and preparing all our fleeces in just over a...
