Getting Ready for Shearing

Before we cleaned the shearing floor.After we cleaned out the old hay.Spent today finishing cleaning the old hay scraps out from under the hay barn where we shear the sheep. Up next is building the sheep sweep and getting everything ready. Shearing is a week from...

Etsy and Ravelry

Not many pictures lately. I have been getting my on-line stuff organized. We now have an Etsy shop as DesertWeyr . I only have a few things there for now. I’m going to see how it all goes before deciding whether to put more there or not. I’m on Ravelry as...

Monmouth Cap

Here is another Monmouth cap knit from the top down with our Black Welsh Mountain bulky yarn. This is what it looks like before fulling it in the washing machine.And here it is after being washed in the machine. Desert Weyr Farm Blog

Yarns and More

I’m getting set up on Ravelry as a yarn vender. Over there my username is OogieM and our yarn brand is Desert Weyr. Here are the yarns I currently have in stock. This is a blend of 50% Black Welsh and 50% Western Fine Wool from a local Delta County flock....

The Woolevator

The new shop second story is a long ways up there. When we stored wool in the old Red Barn loft you could toss the wool boxes up and the person in the loft could catch them. But the new shop is much too tall for that. While going up and down the stairs may be good...