Busy day in a busy week!

Today I have quilting in the a.m., home 15 minutes, then off to Lasell’s shearing.  She and I will then have yarn made from her fleeces.  Before I go, however, I have to put up more fencing and switch the sheep into new pasture.  Hopefully, from here on in, the grass will be growing more quickly and I won’t have to switch them around quite so quickly.  Tomorrow, the piglets come, and will start off in the winter ram pen, until they get used to me and come when called, which might take a week or so.  That gives me time to get fencing up behind the house for them and the goats.  And since they will be right next to the goats for that week, hopefully, they’ll also make friends with the goatie girls.  I’d like to keep them together; not sure how that will work out.  But at the least, they will be right next to each other.

This weekend is the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival, so I’ll be gone most of the time.  John will deal with the animals.  Before then, I have to get “playyard” (a small kenneled in area) fixed up for Lizzie, so she can have time outside without someone watching over her the whole time, so John can get some gardening done this weekend.  Right now, the playyard fencing is serving the winter quarters of the chickens, so they have to be moved as well before then.  This evening will be a good time to do that, if I can get their fencing and housing set up by then.  Otherwise tomorrow, I guess, and save the kennel fencing til Friday mid=day, between runs to Contoocook.  The festival is at the Hopkinton Fairgrounds, in Contoocook, N.H., just off exit 7 of I-89.  Hope to see you there.