Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[greenbean]

There you go! I'll come over and raid your wool stash....practice my spinning skills and spin it up for you....then you can weave it into wonderful items! Soon you'll be doing kilts and all kinds of neat things! Hmmm....maybe plant a field of flax and try our hands at processing that?! lol

Hey greenbean...I have angoras - german hybrids - in case you REALLY NEED them! (and who DOESN'T need one of these fluffy, lovely guys?)

Your table runner looks AWESOME BTW....

If you're close to Lenoir, NC, I'll take you up on that!

 

[jodief100]

The runner looks wonderful. You are amazing with the fiber arts. I can crochet but never got the hang of knitting.

 

[CocoNUT]

Ok Greenbean...you talking Angora rabbit? My SIL lives in Rock Hill....and there's a fiber festival i've been trying to talk Bridge into in C-vill in March! Hmmmm......(I'm in the Eastern Panhandle of WV - so if you ever come up THIS way....)

jodie - i crochet too. nothing too fancy. I'm JUST starting to figure out knitting...but it's making me cross-eyed! Bridge is AWESOME!

 

[greenbean]

Yep! I miss having Angoras. They have a fiber festival!? What's C-vill? I'd love to go. I'm never up in the WV area, but if I ever do go up that way I'll let you know.

As for the fiber festival, we should all go!

 

[CocoNUT]

ok...I'm a dork. I got charlottesville(va) and Charlotte (NC) mixed up. The weekend of March 15th in Charlotte, NC is the fiber festival I was talking about.

 

[bonbean01]

Good job Bridge!!!! I am in awe of your creative talent!!!

And Coco...you are not a dork!!!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

No but she is a NUT

 

[bonbean01]

Well yeah...NUT is in her name...but a very loveable NUT

 

[greenbean]

Charlotte's just a little over an hour from me, do you know where in Charlotte? I'll definitely be there! Bridge, you should go too!

 

[Bridgemoof]

oh Charlotte would be a pretty long drive! And if I go to NC I would have to visit all the other BYHerders between here and there! It would be a week trip

Thanks everyone for the compliments on my first project. I've now warped my loom and am rolling on project #2!!!! WAIT until you see this! So now that I know what I'm doing, my super creative genes can really kick in.

I'm making some kind of purse or bag, or it might even end up being a kindle cover. Don't you think if I made kindle or smartphone covers that would be pretty popular?

Today I have two friends coming to visit from the old neighborhood. I've been here 2 years and many of my neighbor friends haven't even been here yet. It's hard to get people "off the mountain!" They will be here at 10, so I will scramble around this morning cleaning up a little. Then after the farm tour, we are going out to lunch! It will be fun. But lately I have been packing so much into one day, I am physically exhausted. The morning feedings now are taking me over an hour, which is more than doubled what it was before the baby goats came along. I would let Tim feed them, but I know what will happen if I ask him to do it. They WON'T GET FED! The last 2 nights, too, I have fed everybody on the whole farm again because he was too busy. Pushing that wheelbarrow through the mud, ugh. My body is aching badly. I have so much to do, so much work, and I want to weave too!!!! Too much to do, not enough hours in the day!

NOthing really new to report on the animals, except for Uriah is increasingly getting on my nerves. Yesterday he whopped me in the knee cap with his horns. omg that hurt. I can't afford to get injured! Now I am fearful for the girls he is with who are pregnant. I may try putting my two wethers with him in a small stall for a couple of days, then send them all off down the hill to the creek. Except Tim wants them all to leave the barnyard because he wants his momma goats in there. Not enough room to separate the rams from the ewes! I can't wait to seriously thin my herd this coming year. I just can't sleep trying to figure out where to put everyone.

Ok, off to start cleaning (and drinking my coffee and I have to catch up on some journals, too ).