Merry Christmas ! Happy New Year !

We at Ryan's Way are finally ready for Christmas, I think. Lots of wrapping to do tonight and getting all of the animals settled as it is a wintery, cold day and we are supposed to get more ! We will be having a white Christmas this year after all.

We wish all a Merry Christmas and a good start to the New Year !!

Bless all !

Don, Robin, Jordon, Champ, Lexee, Gizzmo, Stewart, Token, Garfield, Skidders, Wuver, Ted, Fred, Blue, Whitey, Herbie, Flapjack, Ditto, Bruce Almighty, Elmo, Ace, Morgan, Beacon, Tye, Ross, Bean, Robbie, Bonnie, Star, Ben, Bubba, Knights, Kalvin, David, Tucker, Marino, Rum Runner, Rae Von, Melody, Gertee, Millie, Liberty, Bing, Laura, Sara, Oreo, Penny, Giselle, and all of the rest................................

Mother Nature at her Best

Tonight is the night for our first winter storm of the season. They are predicting 8-12 inches in our area as well as wind and ice. Mother Nature at her best !

I believe that we will come through fine as all of the animals are bedded snug as a bug in their shelters and maybe I will get a day off work and Christmas vacation will start a day earlier than expected.

What I will love out of all of this is maybe, just maybe a white Christmas. Just doesn't feel like the season without some white stuff.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Breeding Season !

Well we are about done with breeding season for the sheep and goats this year. I am hoping for a bumper crop this spring !~We will have six Shetland ewes and two Angora goat does that will be expecting plus two llamas.

Lexee (our Boxer) is showing ALOT ! She only has a couple of weeks yet and we will be bouncing off of the walls with little puppies ! Her first litter yielded nine !!! So we will see what number we get this time.

The Nativity on the 6th went very well and we are just tickled pink to have been a part of that special day.

Some roving has come back and it is just scrumptious !!! I have a periwinkle/purple/silver blend that is 50/50 Mohair and Shetland, beautiful !!! I also have a black/silver blend, a brown/faded red blend and a cream/heathery brown blend, all 50/50. So if you want some wonderful roving let me know...........

Keep warm

Filming

The filming went just fine yesterday except for the weather, bbbbrrrrrrrrr, to say the least. The trailer went in for winter inserts and now we are getting our educational boards ready and the animals groomed for our Nativity on Saturday. This will be very exciting as there will be 200+ people in attendance.

Thank you Peter Schriemer for this adventure !!

Normal weekend at Ryans'

Well we have made it through Thanksgiving and are now working on getting ready for our Nativity on the 6th. Everyone needs a good grooming and the trailer is going in to have some inserts put in to make it nice and comfy for the animals.

Lexee (our female Boxer that is due on January 8th) decided to get into something dead. Yep, judging from the smell had been dead awhile. She then had an allergic reaction and broke out in whelts all over her body. This is her normal picture. Now put Frankenstein eyebrows on her. Since she is pregnant we have to watch what she is given in the way of medication, so she gets half doses of Benadryl and now resembles a miniature version of Frankensteins bride.

We normally get our Christmas tree this weekend. I am thinking we will wait a week or two now that we have four inside cats. Two are rescues that were babies when brought home and now are 1/2 grown. They will have a jolly time disecting the tree I fear. Anything on shelves or window sills are fair game to Wuver and Skidders.

Winter is Here !

Well I guess the inevitable has happened........old man winter is putting his stamp on us. I am not ready for this yet but I guess my opinion does not matter to Mother Nature. Ted is holed up in the barn. Since he is an outcast and does not fit in with the other goats he has the run of the barn and also runs with the dogs in the yard when they are out. When I called the dogs in the other day he tried to get into the house with them. So we had to have a little talk about how goats are really farm animals and need to stay in the barn and not the house. He was very good natured about it and bounded out to the barn with me wagging his tail all of the way.

Ted loves to be picked up and hugged. He will lay his head on your shoulder. But I have to say he is pushing 50+ pounds. Getting a little harder !!

Crocheted Rugs

Here is a picture of one of the rugs that I made. This one is made from llama fiber. I also make them from sheep wool and mohair in all colors !! I do demonstrations on how to make these and also offer them for sale. Completely washable and lay flat to dry.

LUA KnightVision

Christmas Special All.............

LUA KnightVision-beautiful future herdsire. Taking the showring by storm, correct, upright, colorful what more could you ask for????

Price to put him under your Christmas tree $1000

Call for more info: 517-403-2860

On the road again !

Ryan's Way will be heading to Plymouth, Michigan on December 6th for a Nativity scene and church program. The we will be in Hamtramik, Michigan for a Nativity scene and church program on December 20th.