Harvesting Hay

This is the Oat hay we grew this year being harvested. I love to see all the bales in the field. I got home just in time to watch it being baled.

These are the happy Sheep getting out for the first time in months. (while the oats were growing they were confined to their pen. It was a long winter. They were so happy to get out in the pasture again.

A little nibble here, a little nibble there. They had two glorious days of taste testing the bales before they were picked up and taken to the people we sold it to. They will spend the summer grazing on what ever was left behind. We may plant a pasture for them later, but for now they get lots of mowed grass (from our many lawns) and alfalfa too. They also have big mineral blocks to lick and chew on.

More later,

Spin on........................................Sheena

Some Shearing finally got done!

The Sheep on the right is Ebony. She is a black Lincoln Ewe. Her surprise silver back was under the coat. Her fleece is wonderful even is it is a little long. I washed it myself and that is something I don't always do. It took me all day to wash and rinse and set out to dry. Then about three days to completely dry. I hope to make a rug out of the locks.

Another picture of the fleece drying.

I'm back to work and the Fair is coming together nicely. These will be short and sweet. I'm still spinning on Amy's yarn in my "spare time". Classes are ending this week so that will free up some time until the fall.

Spin on..............................Sheena

Back to work!

Well, it's that time of year again so......................Back to work. I started back at the Races on the 11Th and finished up today for now. Now it's time to start setting up for the Fair. I hope this year is a good one. I love the theme "Music Mania" but with the economy the way it is, it will be interesting to see how this year goes.

We took the long weekend off, and I am resting up and getting ready to work hard. We had some wonderful Marines help us set up our cabinets and that is going to make things so much easier. I also got a chance to shear a sheep. Isabella is done!! Wahoo. I burned up my shears so we didn't get to do Freckles. I thought my shears were toast, but Hubby took them apart and we just broke some little piece. I am going to see if I can get a replacement part, but have to wait until Tuesday because of the Holiday. Then we can get back to shearing. I guess I could do her with scissors, I have before, but she is so much bigger now and very "woolly"

I am still spinning on the pomegranate and have started some beautiful Corridale I am spinning for Amy. She loves yellow and this is a very golden yellow called "honey". When I am done she can make herself a sweater. It's hot now, but next winter it can keep her warm.

I am knitting a pillow top and bottom from yarn left over from my sweater I made out of Freckles. It is small mitered squares on the front and one big mitered square on the back. I saw it in a magazine and thought it would be pretty. And it is.

Spin on.............................................Sheena

Holiday Dinner

Paige "where did you hide them Papa?"

Tess " Eye spy with my little eye"

We had a really nice dinner for Easter. Only one grand kid young enough to want to have an Easter Egg Hunt, but Paige (now a married woman) joined in too. So it was really fun. We ate too much ham and all the fixin's and lots of goodies. Peeps and pie and chocolate bunnies!

Easter Dinner aftermath!

Before

After

A Day With The Shepard

They're following you!

Baking Bread

At the last Machine Knitting Seminar the featured demenstrator told us about a really fun bread recipe. It is the New York Time No Knead Bread. It was great fun and tasted great. The one on the right has some wholewheat flour added and some steelcut oatmeal. Yummy! The other one was just plain white bread. They smell wonderful and are like an artisian bread. I have tried it twice and now want to try some with olives and sun dried tomatoes. I almost hate to see summer come because I have been having such a good time baking. Oh well, there's always next year.