Random Farm Photos

I have written lots of blog posts in my head and I have lots of photos to go with them. It was finally time to sort through and clean up the “pile” of virtual photos. These are some of the stand-outs—not because the photos are of good quality, but there were stories.

A couple of weeks ago we saw these bunnies in the driveway. Dan saw one of them in the morning and later in the day I saw both together. By the time I had finished chores they had hopped over to our backyard. They let me get near enough to them to corral them with a dog x-pen. They are obviously not wild rabbits. We decided that they were likely Easter pets and someone got tired of them and dumped them here.

These are Angora bunnies and Angoras take a lot more maintenance than a regular short-haired rabbit. One of the Farm Club members considered taking them and we were having a Farm Day that weekend. A friend of mine who raises Angoras, as well as goats and sheep, offered to come and look at them. She came on Farm Day and gave us all an intensive lesson on bunny handling and care. She also took them with her so they could get the care they needed and get out of the upcoming heat wave. That was a relief because I really don’t need another animal, especially one that needs more care.

This is a typical view in the back yard. Can you see all seven balls?

I was getting ready to write this post when I heard of the shooting in Texas. It didn’t seem appropriate to share this normal, happy field trip on such a tragic day. It is no less tragic now, but a few days have gone by.

This is our best pet sheep, Jade, a sheep who doesn’t need to be bribed with food to be friendly.

She loves to have people all around her. Jade is an amazing sheep.

Her daughter, Hazel, is just as tame.

Switching thoughts here. I taught at CNCH last week. This is a warp I wound using odds and ends of cotton yarns that were on bobbins that I needed to have ready for the class. It is a mix of different weights of cotton yarn and woven with black. This has not been wet finished yet.

I have been weaving Year to Remember blankets and offering these as custom woven products. That will be a post all in itself one of these days, but this is the first piece that was made into a wall hanging. This represents the customer’s special year with 2 weft threads each day for a whole year and the colors are keyed to the temperatures throughout the year at that location. Here is more info about these.

I took these photos in the yard a week ago.

It will be a good pomegranate year.