Darcy and our sweet Vinca, wagging her tail! Hello from Maybelle Farm. It has been such a busy month and a lot has been done at the farm. I take my farm hat off to my daughter Darcy. She has worked so hard at the farm cleaning out all the stalls which is a lot of hard physical work. She has vacuumed all the cobwebs down in the stalls, measured windows that need to be replaced, cleaned the grain room and hooked up a new pump in the water tank for the sheep. She has, along with her children Rowan and Declan, managed to keep up moving portable fence for all the sheep. I truly do not know how she has worked and accomplished so much. I have been working many, many hours with my home care jobs, so I have not had the time to help out at the farm like I normally would. There is so much to get done during the summer and it seems like the time just flies by.
On Aug. 25th Darcy headed back to school with her two in-service days on the 25th and 26th. I took care of Rowan and Declan both of those days. School started for Rowan and Declan on Aug. 27th. I will be back on farm duty to take care of the sheep once school starts. We have 44 sheep and I desperately need to sell some sheep and cut down that number(44)!!!! I have 300 bales of 1st cut hay in the barn and 300 more bales of 2nd cut coming. I looked up last year and I went through 1100 bales of hay! That is a huge amount of hay and a lot of money. The hay we have so been able to find this year is better quality than some we used last year, which will hopefully cut down on how much we use. We are also putting in more stall feeders in the barn to cut down on hay waste.
I went with Darcy, Rowan and Declan to Storyland earlier this month and we had a very nice time. It was only for an overnight but we did have a nice time. That was my vacation for the year! Darcy took Rowan to Boston for her first Red Sox game in mid August and they had a great day. Declan stayed with PaPa until I got home from work. Austin came up to play and Declan was thrilled to spend the day with his cousin. Our garden is giving us beautiful summer squash, zucchini, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and I have two very large pumpkins.
We have had beautiful weather this month and its wonderful to know so much is done at the farm. I feel like we are really getting ready for fall and winter. I will be putting some of my needle felting items at the Newfane Library with other fiber artists for the month of September. I've been washing wool, dyeing wool and will be making kits and getting ready to teach a fiber class in September. Well I have to close for now and go to the barn. So-long from Maybelle MaMa
On Aug. 25th Darcy headed back to school with her two in-service days on the 25th and 26th. I took care of Rowan and Declan both of those days. School started for Rowan and Declan on Aug. 27th. I will be back on farm duty to take care of the sheep once school starts. We have 44 sheep and I desperately need to sell some sheep and cut down that number(44)!!!! I have 300 bales of 1st cut hay in the barn and 300 more bales of 2nd cut coming. I looked up last year and I went through 1100 bales of hay! That is a huge amount of hay and a lot of money. The hay we have so been able to find this year is better quality than some we used last year, which will hopefully cut down on how much we use. We are also putting in more stall feeders in the barn to cut down on hay waste.
I went with Darcy, Rowan and Declan to Storyland earlier this month and we had a very nice time. It was only for an overnight but we did have a nice time. That was my vacation for the year! Darcy took Rowan to Boston for her first Red Sox game in mid August and they had a great day. Declan stayed with PaPa until I got home from work. Austin came up to play and Declan was thrilled to spend the day with his cousin. Our garden is giving us beautiful summer squash, zucchini, green beans, tomatoes, cucumbers and I have two very large pumpkins.
We have had beautiful weather this month and its wonderful to know so much is done at the farm. I feel like we are really getting ready for fall and winter. I will be putting some of my needle felting items at the Newfane Library with other fiber artists for the month of September. I've been washing wool, dyeing wool and will be making kits and getting ready to teach a fiber class in September. Well I have to close for now and go to the barn. So-long from Maybelle MaMa
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