Kyonarai
Exploring the pasture
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Hello everyone! I live on a 1 acre property in southern Texas, about 45 mins north of Houston. In the last few years, we have really been working on turning our land into a small homestead.
We currently have numerous fruit trees (1 peach, 2 tangerine, one lemon tree with an orange tree graft, 2 plum trees, and 4 pear) as well as several pecan trees and a black walnut tree. We also have blueberries, blackberries, muskidine grapes and dewberries (wild blackberry) that grow seasonally. Oh, and wild chives.
In the animal department, I have a modest flock of ten chickens, a handful of angora rabbits, two saint bernards and a Caucasian shepherd.
I love to knit and am a beginning spinner using a drop spindle to spin the angora fiber and the fur from my Caucasian shepherd. I could easily spin the saint's fur too, but being a pup, my Caucasian pup has fewer guard hairs and a softer coat. And his fur has a wool like crimp and spring that makes its wonderful to spin.
My plans are to add meat rabbits and several more angoras over the next year or two, and aquire more working Caucasian shepherds from kennel abroad to begin my own kennel.
We currently have numerous fruit trees (1 peach, 2 tangerine, one lemon tree with an orange tree graft, 2 plum trees, and 4 pear) as well as several pecan trees and a black walnut tree. We also have blueberries, blackberries, muskidine grapes and dewberries (wild blackberry) that grow seasonally. Oh, and wild chives.
In the animal department, I have a modest flock of ten chickens, a handful of angora rabbits, two saint bernards and a Caucasian shepherd.
I love to knit and am a beginning spinner using a drop spindle to spin the angora fiber and the fur from my Caucasian shepherd. I could easily spin the saint's fur too, but being a pup, my Caucasian pup has fewer guard hairs and a softer coat. And his fur has a wool like crimp and spring that makes its wonderful to spin.
My plans are to add meat rabbits and several more angoras over the next year or two, and aquire more working Caucasian shepherds from kennel abroad to begin my own kennel.
Spinning fibre? Wow, I wish knew how to do that!
