Author: Rose
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Rams on Pasture
Now that the hay is in, we can put the rams out on the front pear orchard pasture. They’ll clean up the parts we cannot cut. This is the first time all the sheep will be out on pasture at the same time. We have one ewe who is sick and one ewe and a Continue reading
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Our First Cutting Hay Is in the Barn!
Judd came back and finished stacking the hay in the barn. Here he is getting the last bales out of our front pear orchard field. These pictures show the last load of hay getting stacked in the barn. Now it’s all in. Continue reading
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Cloak Is in Progress
With the help of your messages, some help on Ravelry, various emailers, and a few phone calls, I finally decided on how to sew the cloak fabric together. I used a figure-eight stitch while holding the right sides of the fabric together. Then, I flattened the seams and pressed them. These pictures show how I Continue reading
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Our First Harvest!
My black thumb hasn’t killed anything yet, and I harvested the first of the peas today! OK, so it’s a meager harvest, but there are a lot more growing. These sure tasted good! Continue reading
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Cloak Problems – Need Suggestions
Today, I started laying out the cloak pattern for my 18th-century Black Welsh cloak. Because my fabric is so much narrower than normal, I cut a long piece of muslin to 24 inches to match it. Then, I pieced the cloak pattern together out of that. I cut the muslin and laid it out on Continue reading
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First Hay in the Barn
Our first load of hay was delivered late in the day today. Unfortunately, the face was uneven, and the stack fell down. Ken re-stacked it so the next ones would be okay. Continue reading
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The Cloak: Pattern Testing
The whole reason I have Black Welsh Mountain Sheep is that I wanted to make a traditional medieval Black Welsh cloak. While most folks would go buy a cloak or, at best, buy fabric and make one, I did things a bit differently. I bought the sheep, bought a spinning wheel, learned to spin, and Continue reading
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Independence Day Thoughts
As we celebrate our Independence Day (two days late from history, but this is traditional :-)), our town is having its annual Cherry Days event. This year, there are actually cherries! Some years, we have frozen; some years, they come later; and some years, like this one, they’re perfect. Sweet Black Bings (never shipped, and Continue reading
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Farmers’ Market Day
We don’t have enough regular vendors to hold a regular market, but for the open business day, we held a small market in downtown Paonia. Here’s Monica from Small Potatoes Farm and our Desert Weyr farm booth. Here’s Flying Fork’s fresh-baked goods and Fire Mountain with some vegetables. There were some lovely tomatoes from another Continue reading
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Stone Brew Visitors and Haying!
Greg Koch from Stone Brewing, plus Susan Duniphin and Keiffer Koch, arrived for a short visit today. We started with some picture-taking opportunities at the edge of the mesa. We had a lovely lunch at Flying Fork in Paonia, then got a great tour of both Revolution Brewing’s new facility and their tasting room. Of Continue reading