Thursday, February 11, 2010

Winter living

Winter should be a time to lay back a bit and enjoy a slower pace on the farm. Not so this winter!

While the weather has been pretty easy this year, farm life remains busy.

Farmgirl and Farmsitter are taking weaving lessons which is great fun. The aim is to weave items from our alpaca fibre. We have received all the yarn and rovings from our clip, four boxes in all; beautiful stuff.

There are several marketing seminars in February to attend and the usual rounds of animal care. Lead training begins this weekend with the use of bike inner-tubes.

Little Andele is improving. He is bright-eyed and steadily gaining weight, so I guess he is out of the woods.

We will be hosting a fibre skirting course just before shearing season begins. Watch for dates.