Where we have been..........

I have been lax in getting new pics posted for Ryan's Way and the activities we have been doing. We are really making a dent in the house as to moving to the farm. We have also decided on a building and pasture location for All of my critters, hehe. That was a task !

As for the pictures posted above: Jordon at his open house the day before commencements, the scene with paintings and fiber is when I demonstrated rug making at the River Art Gallery in Chelsea in June and the picture of the little girl and donkey is when I went into my mom's retirement complex for a petting zoo.

As you can see Persee and Emma are the best of friends !

Take care all, I am off to the Lenawee County Fair tonight.

Bunnies, Bunnies, Bunnies

Angora bunnies have become a passion for me. The colors ! and the care and the harvesting of fiber is SO much simpler than my bigger animals. Plus they are so cute and inquisitive and cuddly !!

I have just added chocolate, black and lynx to my colors. Welcome, Nestle(chocolate doe not pictured), Coco Puff (chocolate buck), Sable (black doe) and Snufflefflegous (lynx buck), they are welcome additions to my angora crew.

July Update

Well folks time is just slipping away from me and here it is the middle of summer. I was so hoping to get much more done than I already have. We have been moving things to the farm, mostly pictures and nick knacks, which itself could probably take all summer.

Second cutting hay should be down hopefully this week. One more cutting and then I am putting pasture fencing up. My goal is to definitely be in the farm by Christmas. My biggest obstacle:getting a building up to house a menagerie of animals. At this point in time I am looking into portable shelters and such to make it this first year.

Some companies have some very cool poly huts that have improved immensely since calf huts first came out. I have found a few that will be great for the goats and sheep and donkeys. Now I am working on the llama shelter ideas.

I will be dyeing more Mohair this next week. I am all sold out of what I had. Hopefully I will have some very funky colors as those seem to sell the best. I have a few Shetland sheep pelts left and one Angora buckling and his mom for sale (pictured above).

The weather is mild today and I am loving that !!!!