A (rainy) day in the (farm)life….
I suppose this reads like “Dear Diary,”… Today I was up before the roosters again. It was dark and rainy, bleh. When I got around to looking at the clock (after I let the dogs out and did a quick...
View ArticleShearing Llamas 2012 has commenced!
Llamas need shearing once a year. The heat, and especially humidity, are much harder on them than the cold. There are all kinds of haircuts, some we do for showing, some we might shear less if we...
View ArticleTaking my entries to the Cobleskill Sunshine Fair today!
It was a huge step for me to start showing llamas a few years back. I was always terrified of competition. Thing is, I love my llamas way more than I’m afraid to compete. Of all the classes I’ve...
View ArticleThis is what I’m talkin’ about! (and fair results)
The weather. Ohmygosh…I am so happy. The llamas are even happier, so nice to see them looking happy with the humidity gone. I entered a few items in the Wool Nook at the Cobleskill Sunshine Fair -...
View ArticleSouthern Adirondack Fiber Festival and Foster Sheep Farm
This weekend – September 22 & 23 from 10-5. Visit the website for all kinds of information! From the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival Website: The 4th Annual Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival...
View ArticleSaturday, 10/13, Walk a Llama – Festival at Faddegon’s Nursery!
Anytime that we can share our llamas for a good cause, we do! Faddegon’s Nursery, Inc. is presenting: First Annual Great Pumpkin Festival and Llama Walk Fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis Saturday,...
View ArticleTrailer pulls out Friday afternoon – Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool!
This will be my seventh year at the Dutchess County Sheep and Wool Festival with llamas. It will be my second year as a spinner. I have friends coming to help with public relations on Saturday and...
View ArticleWhirlwind.
One more road trip…leaving later this week for a llama conference in PA. Friends are set to help with the farm, and my suitcase is still on the floor from Rhinebeck Sheep and Wool. It will be odd to...
View ArticleShop local and visit me! Sheep, Alpaca, Angora Goat, Llama and more!
The first time I went to the Holiday Craft Show in Schoharie was on a whim. I saw the advertisement and made the short trip. I was so taken by the beautiful and quality items in one area that not...
View ArticleHand-made ornament and gift ideas – putting love in the season. Updated again!
I’m a very simple holiday person…..more so as the years go by. For the most part, I turn a blind eye to anything Christmas oriented until a couple of weeks before. Black Friday – just two words,...
View ArticleMy yarn is going to Vogue Knitting Live in NYC!
In collaboration with Tabbethia Haubold – Long Island Livestock Company (LILCO) – my lockspun yarn is going to Vogue Knitting Live in NYC this weekend! This is a very big event in the world of...
View ArticleNEW! FOLK Magazine – With A Contest!
Lucky me! I just got to preview the premiere issue of FOLK magazine in digital format so that I could write about it. It’s the baby of a cute young guy who writes his intro while sitting in a college...
View ArticleMy very FIRST…..!!!
YARN made from my llamas’ fiber – made at a MILL! Back in 2012, I brought 2 pounds of llama fiber to the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival and sat myself down at a table with a lovely woman from...
View ArticleBeans to Yarn to Sorry.
I worked really hard to build up business selling Llama Beans for garden fertilizer. Altamont Agway, Gade Farm in Guilderland, and Faddegon’s Nursery in Latham were wonderful to give me the...
View ArticleMothering and Farmering…
Daughter graduated from high school last weekend. Yes, I cried….new chapter for her. College of St. Rose is next. I’m so proud of her. I need to scan the picture from her yearbook. She listed one...
View ArticlePLY Magazine and my yarn!
Long story, and it began with Tabbethia Haubbold’s (Long Island Livestock Company’s/LILCO) excitement and interest in my lockspun yarn. She had liked how I incorporated it into sweaters that I made....
View ArticleSnubbed by The Crossings In Colonie – Kicked out of the gazebo!
When a friend suggested meeting at The Crossings in Colonie to do a little spinning on Saturday – I decided to take a couple hours off the farm in the morning and do my chores in the afternoon. I...
View ArticleBeekman Boys will judge the Iron Spinning Contest at the Schoharie Sunshine...
The Golden Fleece Spinning and Weaving Guild that I belong to, along with Jess Goblet of Hessian Hill Farm, have a wonderful Wool Nook area set up at the Schoharie Sunshine Fair. Just as there are...
View ArticleNo Place To Fit In – Story Of My Life! But, check out the judge’s notes…
In my younger years, like most, I always wanted to fit in….but for whatever reason, I wasn’t very good at it. As an adult, knowing what I know now, I thrive on not fitting in. It’s not that I work at...
View ArticleHessian Hill Farm Day This Saturday, August 17, 10-4
This is going to be an awesome event – coming up this Saturday, 17 August! Sorry I didn’t hold an Open Barn Day this year, but I’m so pleased to announce this! I’ll be there spinning with some...
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