Category: Community
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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
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More Beer!
This is Mike next to one of the new fermenters at Revolution Brewing. It’s installed and working! Soon, they won’t run out of beer on the weekends. The second one will have to wait until they get the brewing facility active in their new building. Continue reading
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Visiting Friends
Marvyn and his kids, Jakey and Greta, came to visit us today. They’re on a whirlwind tour of western states for this vacation. Continue reading
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Goodbye, Old Truck
We sold our old 1951 Dodge truck today. At one time, I had aspirations of restoring it, but reality set in later. I know I’ll never have the time or skills to do so myself. The new owner restores cars as a hobby, and he’s promised to come back when it’s all done and take… Continue reading
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Exploring Social Media
An article I read a while ago about reserving your name on popular social media sites forced me into exploring Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Because of our farm business, I added Ravelry to the short list of critical places to be on. At first, I just wanted to be sure no one else was OogieM… Continue reading
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The Shearing Is 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, plus the Clocks, and people from Mesa Winds Farm. We started at about 8:15 AM and got done around 1:15 PM. There are 132 naked sheep… Continue reading
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New Sheep Sign
We got the second part of our sign up today. Now, people will easily know what we do and sell here. We also have a sign up by the barn that shows the UK association logo, since we’re also members of that association. Continue reading