A Yarn is Born
My blog has been quiet in recent months, because there haven't been many new events to share. It's been winter, which is a slow time on...
Sheep to Shawl...sort of...
I was about 11 years old when I first saw a Sheep to Shawl demonstration. I was at a downtown arts festival with other people, so I...
WHO are you?
After we sheared the alpacas this spring, they looked different. Who wouldn't, after instantaneously losing seven or eight pounds? And...
Free With Purchase
We bought new alpacas this winter, bringing our herd up to five. When we had the three new boys loaded in our Honda Odyssey, the sellers...
Fences: The Most Underappreciated Farm Structures
No one (who doesn't live on a farm) really thinks about fences. They're just...there. Many times I have been out hiking in the woods,...
Winnie the Pooch
Meet Winnie, the newest addition to our farm family. Winnie is a mix of Great Pyrenees and Anatolian Shepherd. Both of the breeds are...
More about the alpacas
So we got the alpacas a couple weeks ago. I'd been preparing for that event for several years, and it was certainly exciting to have...
There were always meant to be alpacas
From the start, when we first hatched this idea of buying a house with several acres of land, we intended to keep alpacas. We hit the...