Hello again from Maybelle Farm.  It is Wednesday May 16th and all is well at the farm.  It has rained for the past two days but today the Moms and lambs are out together and everything seems to be going O.K.  The four moorit lambs have a hard time telling which Mama they belong to, and who is my brother or sister!!  I have taken a lot of pictures of the lambs and hopefully will be able to use one of them for this summer's t-shirt design.  The lambs are very fast moving targets so many of the pictures won't work!  Yesterday Sandy (the Activity Director from Thompson House) brought a very good friend Marie up to the farm to visit the sheep and meet the 5 little lambs.  I'm adding a couple of pictures and it was so nice to have them visit and see my studio.

Jonathan and I went to Northampton,MA on Monday to pick up a lift-recliner for Jonathan.  Now the problem is, how do we fit it thru the front door........chainsaw perhaps and then super glue??  I am pretty sure my son David can figure out how to get it in the house.  Both Jonathan and I have sore throats, coughs and feel terrible - maybe from the pollen I think?  I took an anti-histamine yesterday but it didn't seem to do much for me.  After the cloudy weather today it looks like a stretch of beautiful weather ahead for the weekend.

Darcy will be adding some new classes that we have scheduled at the farm so please check them out.  I just love having classes here at the farm.  I will be hosting a skirting party in the near future for all the members of the River Spinners Guild.  They can come and learn to skirt Shetland fleeces, have a lovely lunch, meet the new lambs and have a day of fiber play!  I also hope to set up a wool dyeing workshop because its such fun to see what each person creates with combining colors.  I gave a Romney fleece to a lady that will be using it at a workshop in Jamaica.  I will try to get pictures and have her write about what she is teaching the children.

Well, its time to go do some housework and run up to check on the Moms/lambs in the pasture.  So-long from Maybelle MaMa

Hello again from Maybelle Farm.  Its Thursday May 3rd, 2012 and all is well at the farm.  I'm attaching some pictures of some of the lambs with Rowan and Declan and also a picture of "Odessa" the last lamb born at the farm on Saturday April 28.  She weighed 7 lbs and Lyra is her mother.  This year we got two beautiful little moorit ewe lambs, two moorit ram lambs and one kalmoget ram lamb.  I love having lambs but it is a stressful time, now we can just enjoy all the silly playing as the lambs hop,bounce and run all over the pastures.  We have had some very cold, rainy days so they have only been out once.  After thunderstorms/rain tomorrow, the weather looks good so they can be outside.  The grass is growing like mad fury and next comes the black flies!

Agathe, Olivia, Emma and Bill Hoos went with me to Dutton's farm in Windham last Friday to pick up 20 bales of 2nd cut hay.  It was a great adventure as they had never been to the farm.  We all climbed up into the hay loft and threw out the hay.  Agathe, Olivia, Emma and I went to Walpole to Tractor Supply, Ocean State Job Lot, Mr. G's and had lunch.....what a fun day.  Saturday afternoon I had Darcy call Bill because it looked like Lyra would have her lamb and so "Odessa" was born about 7 p.m. that night.  We all got to see that delivery and make sure everything was fine.  What a wonderful mother Lyra is and Odessa is just a very sweet, lovable little ewe.

Well Declan is having a nap and its almost time to go to the town hall for "Tap Dance" class.  Our dance recital will be on Saturday June 2, 2012 at the Wardsboro Town Hall. The children have done a great job and the costumes are so pretty.  I just love getting all the costumes and putting on the recital.  Its just pure play time for me.  So-long from Maybelle MaMa.