Today Jack and I celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary. It's always kind of a low key affair for us, seems best to just be home and recognizing our blessings.When I first arrived home from work and went down to the barn there were three deer grazing in the near field...
Here are a few pictures from the CT Sheep and Wool Festival last Saturday. It was a very nice event, with a great group of vendors, sheep events such as shearing demos and ongoing demos about how to skirt a fleece, plus a sheep to shawl contest; the judges were the...
To the Connecticut Sheep and Wool Festival, tomorrow, April 28th! I have a truck load of wool, fleeces, dyes and related items! And of course it is raining cats and dogs (so to speak!) so what could go in the back of the pickup will have to be stuffed inside instead....
Button, button, who's got the button? Remember that simple game when we were kids?( I know, probably dating myself!) It was so simple...someone would have a button between their hands and would go around the group and pretend to pass it to each person...and one person...
Here, in the center of the picture, is Memphis with last year's lamb, Charlotte, each with their head on the other's back, just snoozing. What is as touching is Savannah, Memphis' lamb from '03 just behind and to the right watching over them both. Memphis is the only...
The sun! We have seen it so little lately it feels like the Pacific Northwest! Here is Sidney basking in it's warmth today. Also a few pictures of the fleeces I have to prepare; I am down to the wire now, with a number of them sold and needing to be shipped and the...
The Eastern seaboard and inland areas are getting hammered with a good old fashioned nor'easter. The conditions were ripe for the massive storm coming from Texas and then catching a system off the Atlantic and cruising up the coastline. NYC almost broke it's own...
Do you ever have one of those times when all at once everything is off and one off thing leads to another? Well, this morning it happened to me. We had yet another snowstorm yesterday and got 4" more of heavy snow. Before I feed the dogs I always go out to feed the...
Allelulia! Easter Sunday. 30 degrees, a stiff North wind, snow covered landscape, a fire in the dining room. The sun is stronger now though and by mid-day the snow was mushy and dripping off the roof. The snowdrops are earning their name this week. No matter what,...
Ah, New England....no place like it! Saturday it was in the 50's, sunny, robins getting worms and today we have 6 inches of fresh snow and it is 30 degrees, I hear 20 degrees below normal for us all week. It is perfect snow for making a snowman...maybe later after...
