A Good Book

I just finished reading “Sheepish” by Catherine Friend, a “memoir” for lack of a better term, about Catherine and her partner and their farm in Minnesota. The book is chock full of interesting facts about sheep, wool, farming, cotton, carbon footprints, and other way cool topics. I learned a lot, on top of laughing at a lot of the mistakes they made, similar to ones I’ve made, and empathizing at sad times. Farming is both joyous and tough at times.

Yesterday we had some snow, following on Thursday’s snow.  Still not a lot, but at least the ground is covered and it seems like winter. My guess is tomorrow morning when it is zero or even colder, I won’t be quite so gung ho on winter, but for now, it’s sure nice to see the snow.  Because the temperature is to drop significantly, I gave the sheep a bit of hay this afternoon…they really don’t need it, but a little extra fuel might help them, or at least console them when the cold hits.  Or they can burrow down in it…(probably the goats will, anyway!)

I sure wish I knew why these chickens haven’t started laying yet.  They are 7 months old and ought to be laying.  They sure are beautiful, many different kinds of wyandottes, but they aren’t here to be beautiful; they’re here to lay eggs!

I started another Einstein coat today out of some handspun yarn which is a combination of blues and purples I bought from Spunky Eclectic plied against silver grey coopworth.  I’m eager to see how it turns out…but since it’s a coat, it will be awhile before I’ll have it done.  I also have tons of roving to knit before shearing…which reminds me, it’s time to contact Gwen for a shearing date in March.  One more month of kind of reduced farm chores, before preparing for shearing and lambing, and then the spring shows start again.

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