A gorgeous but intensely busy Columbus Day weekend here at the farm. I’m up to my eyeballs in the dye studio, getting ready to ship our Sheep Shares fall shares and simultaneously dyeing skeins for the New York Sheep & Wool festival this coming weekend (yikes!). Lots of leaf peepers on our road this weekend, stopping to take pics of our sheep, llamas and donkeys. The llamas are especially photogenic.

And if that’s not enough, poor Jellybean (Cormo ewe) is lame from an abcess in her ankle. Poor girl. It looks like a cut that became infected. Mike and I have been soaking her leg in a warm epsom salt bath, administering anitbiotics and aspirin. It’s draining (sorry, I know that’s gross, but that’s what it needs to do – and welcome to my world) and she is starting to bear weight on her foot again, which means she’s getting better.

Aside from Jellybean’s sore foot – a glorious weekend (as you can see from the snaps I took yesterday).

Cheers.