Random Farm Photos

Here’s another batch of photos—a little bit about what I’ve been doing. I’m still torn between writing here and at the other blog. I don’t know if the interested followers will want to be in two places. I find it interesting that now the Wordpress blog interface for writing posts is so similar to this one…except I think there is one less click for uploading photos. I just wrote a short post there and used different photos.

After I finished teaching a mixed warp scarf class (which I realize deserves its own blog post) I wanted to wind a warp for myself before putting all the yarn away. This is a shawl with all kinds of crazy yarn. It is off the loom, now but not fringed and washed.

Speaking of classes, you will be glad to know that the Weaving House, where my mom and then son and DIL used to live, now has AC. Yesterday we had it installed so we can use the house in the summer and not have to apologize for the conditions. Notice the umbrella for the comfort of the installer. That’s what caught my eye while he was working.

This one also deserves its own blog post. It’s a collaboration between a Farm Club member who did the spinning, and me, the weaver. The ultimate goal is for this scarf to be part of the Jacob Sheep Breeders prize drawing (formerly called a raffle) at the annual meeting next month. Here is a link to the prizes so far. Anyone can buy tickets on-line if you will not be there.

Isn’t it fun to try lots of different natural dyes and then create a project with all? I bundled four of the Timm Ranch 1-ounce skeins to sell online.

This is all Timm Ranch yarn dyed with walnut hulls, weld, weeping willow, and madder root, all growing on our property. These are for sale on the website .

I taught three people to spin on Sunday. What better was to spend Mothers Day afternoon? These are their first skeins. Learn to Spin is on the website.

I’m also still skirting fleeces shorn in the winter. This one will go on the website tonight after I weigh it.

After all that winter rain, we eventually needed to irrigate. This is the northwest corner of the property. A valve is opened at the northwest corner of that almond orchard and the water has to run south and then east to get to the corner of our property. The standpipe has a wire cage over it because last year we found a lamb that had tragically drowned in this pipe.

The water flows under the berm through a pipe and up into the cement standpipe.

Then it flows in front of the blackberries and around the corner in this ditch to the other ditch that runs east-west. We had hoped to be approved for an irrigation and pasture improvement project through NRCS, but our project wasn’t selected, so we’re still muddling through the old way

I’m still updating lamb photos on the website so that I can sell most of the lambs and also figure out which to take to Estes Park and Black Sheep Gathering in June.

I participated in a towel exchange where we had drawn names for who we’d be weaving for. Look what my friend, Pat, wove for me on her drawloom!