Goodbye Old Truck

We sold our old 1951 Dodge truck today. At one time I had visions of restoring it but reality set in and I know I’ll never have the time or skills to do so. The new owner restores old cars as a hobby and he’s promised to come back when it’s all done...

Shearing Done!

I was too busy to take any pictures but we got the entire flock shorn yesterday. We had a good crew, a bunch of folks from Ravelry came and the Clocks and people from Mesa Winds Farm. We started about 8:15 am and got done about 1:15 pm. 132 naked sheep on the mesa...

Shearing Day

Saturday was our sheep shearing day. Friday we picked up Eifion. That was the good news. The bad news was his shearing equipment in his luggage didn’t make it on the same plane he did. He tried to shear the first flock with my Lister shears and got it done but...

Food Safety and You

Well there has been another major food contamination issue with meat. The largest ever beef recall for E. coli contamination. I want all of you to look a bit behind the headlines to see the system that allowed that to happen, what problems it presents for small...

More Tyvek and the Crew

The crew from left to right, West, Warren, Bill and Brian. Today they got the outside framing done where the stairs are going to go and the Tyvek on the west side of the building. Tomorrow more windows will go in and tyvek installation will continue. Desert Weyr Farm...