Monthly Archives November 2008

Giving Thanks

As I zipped around doing evening barn chores yesterday, I thought about my many reasons to be grateful. I am blessed with health and  wonderfully supportive family and friends. This year my family (who are rather spread out geographically) decided we would all do our own thing for Thanksgiving. Although I really miss seeing everyone, I am glad no one has a long drive, no one has to deal with airport agony and that we can all have a restful day.  I am thankful that I live on this beautiful patch of planet and that my life is graced with
Read More

Winter Wardrobe

Wednesday morning Holly rounded up the lambs and ewes and grabbed the buckets of clean sheep coats. The gang is really putting on wool at this time of year and we had been noticing quite a few jackets with snug fits.  We're also transitioning now from pasture to hay feeding. There's still grass out there, but as the earth hardens with each frost it gets more and more difficult to set the stakes of our temporary electronet fencing into the ground. I've learned from past experience not to wait too long to take down the electronet. Mike and I once
Read More

Butch and Gypsy

To follow up on yesterday's promise, here's a better look at Butch with his new sidekick Gypsy together in the pasture. Enjoy. Caitlyn &  company: ************************************************************************************ copyright 2008, Barbara Parry. All Rights Reserved. Foxfire Fiber & Designs at Springdelle Farm
Read More

Changes – BIG and small

Fall means a farm in transition. Temperatures dropping, trees unleaving, daylight shrinking, the sheep keenly sense and respond to the change in season. At one minute, they rest at ease, here enjoying a moment just after dawn. A moment later, they're charging at each other, ears back, heads down. The rams get territorial, squaring off in the pasture. It's nearly time for them to join the ewes. The ladies are restless and short-fused as well. Lots of sparring at feeding time in the barn. The landscape here is changing in other ways.The birthing barn is getting a badly needed roof
Read More