Margie from Margie's Muse talking to Cindy Kilgore.
Hello again from Maybelle Farm. Its Monday May 23rd,2011 and another cloudy, rainy day! Oh well, we have more grass than the sheep can eat and everything is so green and beautiful. This is much better than not enough for the sheep to eat! Yesterday all the mothers and lambs were out, but Tinka and Juliette cannot get along so they have to be in separate pastures. Arly and Aphrodite with their little boys are fine together and all the lambs were totally exhausted by the time I put them back in the barn. The flies are really starting to bother and poor Tinka with her tail docked TOO short, gets lots of bites so I have to make sure to put some organic bug spray on her Butt! There is just nothing so cute as the little lambs boinging around the pasture, and the mothers have calmed down enough to graze while the little lambs are totally crazy. Life is good on the farm. Yesterday was a work day at the farm. Darcy and Todd piled up the pruned branches from the two pear trees and burned them. My niece Debbie rototilled Darcy's garden and Darcy cleaned out the stinky chicken house. Darcy and Todd planted a new peach tree so there are now three peach trees and two pear trees. Darcy and Todd cleaned up all the old hay around all the rose bushes in the back yard! WHEW, that's quite a day's work.
David and Jonathan went to Greene, N.Y. to pick up a John Deere tractor that David is going to put a new diesel engine in. It has a snow blower, a plow and mower so it will really help here at the farm. They stopped in Oneonta, NY and ate at Brooks Barbeque and drove around Cobleskill and I think they really had a nice day. They left here at 4:45 a.m. and got home about 4:30 p.m. and were both tired. My niece Debbie, that rototilled Darcy's garden, also went up to my brother Everett's to do his garden and got stuck. She called here and David took our Kioti up and pulled her out. We could certainly have a pretty good Mud-bog here. Rowan and I planted some sweet peas in my raised bed last week where I have a trellis and they have finally peeked through the ground.
I was at the Tasha Tudor Museum on both Wednesday and Friday. Amy helped me move things around and the gift shop really looks nice. I had 8 visitors that had made appointments on Friday and I will be there this coming Wed./Fri./and Sat. I think it could be quite busy seeing how its Memorial Day weekend. I hope to go to the Massachusetts Sheep Festival on Sunday but it depends on the weather. If its really rainy, I probably will not go. I am going to add some pictures of the Jamaica Fiber Day that I was a vendor at this last Saturday May 21st. It was such a nice day with the town hall full of vendors. Kami from the Bromley Inn had two of her beautiful Alpacas in a pen out front of the hall. Its always nice just to get to be with other fiber people and we all end up buying more than we sell, because we just can't walk past fiber and not "EWE" and "AHH" over things, and then buy them!
It was very worthwhile to be there and I have put out a call to my fiber instructors to set up more classes here at the farm. We will be doing Beginner Spinning, Drop Spindle Spinning, Dyeing Wool, Fleece (from raw wool to roving), Wet felting, Needlefelting, Weaving and much more. Please check out our classes because we will continue to add classes as they are scheduled. I also sold some of my lovely roving that I picked up from the Battenkill Fiber Mill. I am so happy with it and I have three times in the last two days been able to spin on my new Lady Bug spinning wheel, I'm spinning my special "VINCA" and will make myself a vest! WOW, that will be a first in a very long time, to actually make something for myself.
Well, I think that covers everything got the moment and I need to go get a few things done before Jonathan and I go shopping. Tractor Supply is my favorite store so we will go there this afternoon. So-long from Maybelle MaMa.
David and Jonathan went to Greene, N.Y. to pick up a John Deere tractor that David is going to put a new diesel engine in. It has a snow blower, a plow and mower so it will really help here at the farm. They stopped in Oneonta, NY and ate at Brooks Barbeque and drove around Cobleskill and I think they really had a nice day. They left here at 4:45 a.m. and got home about 4:30 p.m. and were both tired. My niece Debbie, that rototilled Darcy's garden, also went up to my brother Everett's to do his garden and got stuck. She called here and David took our Kioti up and pulled her out. We could certainly have a pretty good Mud-bog here. Rowan and I planted some sweet peas in my raised bed last week where I have a trellis and they have finally peeked through the ground.
I was at the Tasha Tudor Museum on both Wednesday and Friday. Amy helped me move things around and the gift shop really looks nice. I had 8 visitors that had made appointments on Friday and I will be there this coming Wed./Fri./and Sat. I think it could be quite busy seeing how its Memorial Day weekend. I hope to go to the Massachusetts Sheep Festival on Sunday but it depends on the weather. If its really rainy, I probably will not go. I am going to add some pictures of the Jamaica Fiber Day that I was a vendor at this last Saturday May 21st. It was such a nice day with the town hall full of vendors. Kami from the Bromley Inn had two of her beautiful Alpacas in a pen out front of the hall. Its always nice just to get to be with other fiber people and we all end up buying more than we sell, because we just can't walk past fiber and not "EWE" and "AHH" over things, and then buy them!
It was very worthwhile to be there and I have put out a call to my fiber instructors to set up more classes here at the farm. We will be doing Beginner Spinning, Drop Spindle Spinning, Dyeing Wool, Fleece (from raw wool to roving), Wet felting, Needlefelting, Weaving and much more. Please check out our classes because we will continue to add classes as they are scheduled. I also sold some of my lovely roving that I picked up from the Battenkill Fiber Mill. I am so happy with it and I have three times in the last two days been able to spin on my new Lady Bug spinning wheel, I'm spinning my special "VINCA" and will make myself a vest! WOW, that will be a first in a very long time, to actually make something for myself.
Well, I think that covers everything got the moment and I need to go get a few things done before Jonathan and I go shopping. Tractor Supply is my favorite store so we will go there this afternoon. So-long from Maybelle MaMa.
Jennifer Cary looking at needles. Also Jenna Konesko's yarn and wings!
Ruth Ticknor spinning from her Bunny. Cindy Kilgore enjoying an upclose look. Cheryl Flett in the background.
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