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Our ewes find some greens as "neighbors" pay a call!
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felt snakes!
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Grass is finally greening here in central Montana and the trees have wee buds popping. We green up later than other places I have known.....but once its time, the resident flora dash madly towards summer. The dash has begun! For the last month the weather didn't always look like spring--but our full calendar certainly heralded the season!
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NeedleFelt wizards!
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I enjoyed participating in Highwood School's Art week in early April by teaching 3 Fiber Felting workshops. K-2nd graders made wool bead bracelets; 3-5 graders made wooly snakes and the Highschoolers certainly dove into needle-felting in a huge way! What fun to teach the basics of wool and of the ancient art of felting!
100 years ago, 819,000 sheep lived in our county! That is a LOT of sheep! We are pleased to be a very small part of that heritage and appreciate the opportunities to again kindle interest in shepherding.
May 1, we plan to help out at Choteau County Extension Ag day for county 4th graders. We'll talking about sheep and wool.
June 6, I will be Keynote speaker at the
Montana Association of Weavers and Spinners Biennial Conference in Great Falls. See their website for class info and registration.
This event is at Heritage Inn and features a dizzying lineup of amazing fiber arts classes. Everything from kumihimo braiding to wrapped fiber dollmaking, lace weaving and more!
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Visiting freinds
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I will speak about Fiber Farmers Around the World in honor of the UN International Year of the Family Farm.There will be plenty of photos courtesy Wild Fibers magazine. And I will lead a "Meet the Sheep" tour to a local Merino Ranch that markets their wool as lovely custom yarn in a nearby shop.
Our lambs are ready to pop. Apparently the young, vertically challenged ram we brought in last winter was able to fulfill his "obligations" pretty handily! Our 3 maiden ewes are full of babies and filling with milk.
All are healthy so far and we look forward to a good lambing. However, we DO NOT look forward to training 3 youngsters to the milkstand! And, for the first time I will train all 3 to a machine milker--God willing!
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| Special Easter Guest |
Easter was lovely here and we were joined by a special guest from our son's family--Rainbow the preemie goat! Her presence at table made the occasion complete!
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| Cascarones Easter Eggs |
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Easter Kids at Play
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| Egg Hunts |
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| Rainbow the Goatling |
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| Springy Kids |
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| Needlefelting with highschoolers |
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| felt snake handlers! |
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| felt bead bracelets! |
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| felt beads are good clean fun! |
