Today's Random Farm Photos

This is truly a random batch of photos and thoughts. I am not focused on any one thing except overriding everything is Covid-19 and how that has changed it all. (No, I am not sick, but life has changed.)

Part of my “stay-at-home” endeavor is to use up yarn that has been here for a long time. I used to think I had a yarn shop—and I bought really nice yarn for resale. I am not set up like a real yarn shop and I don’t have the traffic to sell those yarns, especially now. So I will use it myself. (Remember thought that I do have really nice yarn—specializing in locally grown.) These blankets are woven with yarn from Imperial Yarn Company. These will be on my website and I took three others to the Artery.

Another blanket I wove recently. The colored yarn is handspun yarn that I must have spun years ago. This is on the website now.

All local Solano County yarn in natural sheep colors. The gray wool is from my flock. We’re moving into hot days, but I find a nice soft throw a good thing to have when the whole house fan is pulling in the cool night air. It is important to cool off the house at night, but sometimes I don’t want the cold wind on me. This one is on the Fibershed Marketplace website along with a couple of others.

I just wove these scarves today. This is an experiment. Experiment #1: Sett. The scarves use the same warp but the one on the left is sett at 10 epi (ends per inch) and the one of the right at 8 epi. Experiment #2: A new draft. I got this from an Ashford newsletter. Do you see the hearts? They show up better in the rust colored stripe. Experiment #3: Using dyed yarn (naturally dyed) and yarn straight from the cone. The dyed yarn has been in processed in hot water and behaves differently than yarn that has not been washed. The scarves have now been washed and are drying. I’ll see if they still look like seersucker in the morning.

Now I’ll get a little more random.

Ginny focused on the Ball-on-a-Rope. This Rope is now made up of baling twine since the original one is long gone.

The nest of a black phoebe in the garage. This is a problem for Dan because there are eggs and the mother bird is upset if Dan is trying to work down below. He is trying to give her space to let her raise her babies.

One of the triplet kids. These are Nubian x Bohr crosses.

I just learned that the folded ears of this one are typical of Bohr goats.

This is Ellie, the mom of the kid with the folded ears.

That’s Ellie and her kid. The triplets are next to their mom, Amelia.

I had the camera at the barn today because I’m trying to get photos of the sheep that I plan to keep so that I can get them registered. This is one of the ewe lambs. No name yet.

This is a ewe lamb still in the pasture. I need to get photos of these too so I can update the lamb pages on the website.

Here is another that I plan to keep.

A ram lamb in the pasture.

I don’t have as much coreopsis in the dye garden as last year but they are blooming now.

The purple hollyhocks are the most striking flower in the dye garden. These deep purple flowers give a green dye. I have been collecting dried flowers and have them listed for sale now.