Hello from Maybelle Farm on Saturday Sept. 26th.  It's a beautiful sunny day and I spent 1 1/2 hours this morning doing chores and visiting with all my sheep.  It's nice to have a day to relax and just enjoy being outside on such a gorgeous chilly morning.  The leaves are turning and pretty soon the hillsides with be painted with so many beautiful colors.  I love all the foliage but do not like the bleak gray time of year that follows.  It has been a very busy time since the last time I wrote a blog in August.

I have hay in the barn.  I have sold 4 ram lambs and my adult ram Fergus.  Fergus will be headed to Maine in October and that will make things on the farm so much easier for me.  I will then have my numbers below 50 sheep and hope to get down to about 40 by winter time.  We took little "Burdette" our only ram lamb left at the farm away from his mom and he is now in the big boy pasture.  Everyone looks wonderful and its such a nice time on the farm.  Darcy has been wonderful moving portable fence all summer/fall and hopefully with some more rain, they can keep grazing for at least another month.

It is also that time of year again that I am teaching a Fiber Fun class at the Wardsboro Elementary School.  It so nice to watch the children learn about fiber and make such beautiful things.  We made wet felted beads and wet felted bars of soap last week.  This week we needle felted acorn Christmas tree ornaments and needle felted pumpkins for Halloween.  The class is growing as students see what can be made from wool.  I will be teaching an adult class in Londonderry later in October.  I just finished teaching a "Landscape Needlefelting" class at Wing and a Prayer farm in Shaftbury,VT last week.  I stayed at the farm and had the most incredible time Sunday evening through Tuesday late afternoon.  I helped Patty Blomgren teach a spinning workshop and had so much fun.

My needlefelting work will be on display at the Wardsboro Public Library for the month of October.  I'm the featured artist and it will be all of my felted landscapes. I am cutting back on homecare now and will be spending more time working in my fiber studio and scheduling more classes.  As soon as cold weather arrives knitting, spinning, dyeing wool, needlefelting, wet felting, etc... become popular.  I also am excited to go tomorrow with my friend Karen to the Adirondack Fiber Festival in Greenwich,N.Y.  I am going to pick up my beautiful yarn that was processed at Battenkill Fiber Mill.  I can hardly wait for tomorrow to get here, it will be a sleepless night in Wardsboro!

Well I have to stop now and get  ready to go play for a 90th birthday party this afternoon.  Oh yes, in my spare time I play the piano in our family band!   Have a very nice fall foliage season and so-long from Maybelle MaMa.

Hello from Maybelle Farm.  It's been awhile since I've written a farm blog, so now I can update what has been happening here.  The end of the summer was busy with my grandchildren going to a circus class, nature camp and drama camp.  I worked at the Grace Cottage annual Hospital Day and did some needle felting and sold some of our wool. 

On Aug. 7th I had to call the veterinarian to come put down my sweet old "Rhyden".  She is the daughter of my starter flock boss lady "Tally".  Rhyden was always one of those special sheep that wanted to be petted, scratched and followed me around.  I will miss her but knew it was time!  I hope she is pain free, in a field of flowers with her Mom Tally and lots of our other sheep.  Jonathan was able to buy three young chickens to go with his one lonely Golden Wyandotte.........they are now finally getting along and out exploring our yard too.

We had a week of "Fiber Camp" during the second week in August.  We had a wonderful group of campers that spent the week needle felting, wet felting, skirting, washing and carding wool.  They made gnomes, dryer balls, wet felted soap, dyed wool with Kool-aid and acid dye, wet felted beads and even did some hula-hoop weaving!  It was a fun week and we were sad to have it come to an end.  Check our our farm Facebook Page for a full recap of the week and LOTS of photos.

Darcy and Rowan went to a Red Sox game on Vermont day and had a great time.  Declan stayed here and we took him to the bowling alley for lunch, grocery shopping and basically a pretty dull day for a little boy, but he was very good.  I am loving my job working at the "Ugly Duckling Yarn Shop" in West Dover.  Its like being in a candy store for me to be there.

That is about it for now.  I have put up for sale 4 ram lambs, my adult ram Fergus and several wethers and ewes.  I have to cut down my numbers before winter gets here.  Right now I have 55 sheep and would like to be down to about 30 before snow flies here at Maybelle Farm.  Nature will take about 5-6 before winter.  SO I will close for now.  So-long from Maybelle MaMa.