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We have a huge crop of sand burrs which I would love to attack with a torch but we had the fire department out here to put out a grass fire last fa...

I planted two garden bins with cotton seeds back at the end of April.  This past Friday I picked my first cotton!  It's always a joy to see somethi...

Yikes.  It's already August.  It seems like we have been in lockdown for years or maybe only for moments.  Time has become an interesting phenomeno...

I'm in the middle of warping up my Schacht Standard floor loom with hemp yarn for face cloths.  I just finished a run of linen face cloths and this...

There comes a time in the spring when ponies just need to be trimmed.  Welsh ponies have no end of hair.  Trimming them for a show always took work...

Being productive in this time of the pandemic is somewhat problematic.  On the one hand there is so much more time to get things done now that we a...

Sometimes things break and stuff that should get done doesn't.  Like mowing our long grass.  

You may remember that we sheared the goats very early last spring. February 1st, to be exact. So here it is July and the goats are in full coat. An...

We are going through a period of horrendous mosquitos. The dogs bring up swarms of them when they go out in the backyard. We usually have a breeze ...

We are at the end of June, about to begin July.  I thought it was time to do a garden update.  Here goes... The tomatoes are blooming. We were late...

Today is the first day of the Tour de Fleece.  Wheels all oiled up and ready to go?  Grab that new spindle and give it a whirl!  It's time to spin!...

All you spinners out there are aware of the Tour de Fleece.  For the non-spinners, here's the story.  Every year at about this time there are a cra...