A Flock of Sheep…

A low maintenance wooly flock of sheep…made with a pipe cleaner, most sheepies are sporting my farm-raised Corriedale fleece. The large sheepie in the back is made with Merino and wool felt ears; the first on the left is Suffolk. Add a length of ribbon and they’ll make cute ornies for the tree. Embellish if desired with black [...]

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A Recipe for Parsley…

Do you recall all the parsley in my garden in a previous post (it’s actually about half of the parsley in my garden)? Well, if you have lots of fresh parsley, here’s a recipe that perhaps you’d like to try… TABOULI. First, a few facts about parsley. Parsley is a biennial – that means it comes [...]

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A welcome addition to my fiber ’stash’…

What happens when you love F I B E R and G O A T S ??? You get a goat that’s reputed for its fiber and hardiness, in this case, a P Y G O R  A, which is a breed purposely bred and registered to produce fine fiber for hand spinning. Pygoras are a cross between an [...]

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A Working Weekend

Matt was home over an extended 4-day weekend (mid-terms) so I spent lots of time rattling the pots and pans in the kitchen preparing his ‘favorites’. Used up the last of my goat’s milk cheese with baked manicotti…YUM! I made meatloaf –  it’s always a family fav – for another supper, and last, stuffed green peppers [...]

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Fall garden ‘to-do’ list!

You never realize how creative you are until it comes time to figure out what to do with all the L A V E N D E R in your garden!?!!

Most of the lavender seen here (in my drying barn) will be ‘garbled’, that is, the buds and leaves will be removed from the stems [...]

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Awww…what was I thinking?

Sunday morning I visited our local Armada Flea Market. Aside from seasonal farm fresh produce, ‘yard tag sale’ stuff (ya know – one man’s junk is another man’s treasure), occasional collectables and antiques, there’s also kittens, puppies, chickens and —– bunnies.
As I was leaving, I noticed this little furry thing, perhaps a chinchilla?? My fatal [...]

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Osage Oranges

Osage orange trees are a common sight on the Great Plains today although they were not a widespread member of the prairie community originally. Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880’s, they were planted as living fences – or hedges – along the boundaries of farms.
The name of the tree comes from the [...]

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A New Sheep Shed and Hay Feeder

Athos, my Shetland ram, has a new home! Yeah! A simple lean-to construction, framed with 2 X 4’s, plywood roof and asphalt shingles, exterior cedar siding and 2 X 6 board interior. I’d like to paint the exterior of this shed barn red with white trim…if time and weather permits? After my tragic accident and loss [...]

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Apple Pie!

You know it’s Fall when…you have a taste for fresh, hand-made apple pies…YUM! Mama always said apples were sweeter after the first frost! Since we had our first ‘heavy’ frost last week, I decided it was time to visit our local orchard – conveniently located 5 minutes from my house – and pick some apples. [...]

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October Already?

Frost was definitely on the pumpkin the other nite! Thought I’d better tend to the garden and pick the veggies that wouldn’t survive the freeze – green peppers, tomatoes, green beans, basil, dill and such. It was probably a good idea to tidy up the garden anyway since this weekend I’m one of the destinations for the [...]

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