Can I come in?

 Our almost 2 year old Horned Dorset ram, Christopher

 Our 6 year old Romney ram, Stormy Weather.

 She won't let me in. What makes you think she'll let you in.

Our barn is FULL!!! It is 24'x30'

1/3 is mothers-to-be. 2/3 of the other 1/3 is non-breeders, 

and that other1/3 is grain/water room.

The center 1/3 is the aisle way. This normally has a round bale in it.

Right now it is housing these 2. The only time they see outside is when we

 are home and they can run free. Otherwise, they might be at the neighbors...

Eventually, when Jerry finishes the brakes on my car.....

We will finish the hoop house for the rams and wethers.

They will have cattle panels for fencing for the winter.

This spring they will move in to the fenced in area where the pigs were not.

Where the pigs were needs to be seeded with grasses and soybeans.

We will see what grows the best over there.

Unless of course, we sell the farm first. Then, the new owners will see what grows best.

:)

New year, new cat

This past year was not good for Ewe & I Farm. We lost Jack Black's sibling, Earl Gray, to 'something' from nature. Later in the year, our 13 year old Psycho passed on in the house.

Two weeks ago I stopped at the Wendell Veterinary to see if they had any kittens or cats available.They had a ~2 year old female cat available. She was up-to-date on all her shots, and they had just spayed her 2 days earlier. During the sub-zero time in early January with LOTS of snow, she either got lost or was dumped. The vet's office posted in numerous places about her, but no one responded. So, Cal-Lee Calico came home with me.

Two weeks later, she still growls at Jack. But, not as much. She has gotten a lot calmer, not so jumpy at every sound and movement. Hopefully, she and Jack will get better with time. I just wish that he would pounce her and get it over with.

 Cal-Lee Calico is the first calico I have seen with Tabby instead of black.

 Jack Black sleeping in the clean laundry.

 Isn't he adorable?!

Wimot Community Association Holiday Craft Fair

(Copied from the website)
   

WCA HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR

Saturday, December 7th  9 AM – 3 PM

Location:  New London Outing Club Indoor Center (former middle school gym)  

                                                 114 Cougar Court, New London

More than 65 crafters featuring:

* Baked Goods     * Baskets     * Bat Houses     * Doll clothes & furniture

* Hand-sewn items     * Jewelry     * Knits, woven & felted items

* Ornaments     * Pottery     * Raffle and much more!

 * Famous Wilmot Ladies Aid Cookie Walk   * Hot Lunch, Beverages & Treats

http://www.wilmotcommunityassoc.com/holiday-craft-fair-vendors/

Anne Mitts and I will be setting up Friday night. We hope for a good show, and great sales this year. It is SO much better having us all under one roof!!! And, I think it is well worth the $100, plus a donation for the raffle, for a 10x10' booth in New London!!!

5th Annual Green Mountain Fiber Fesival

https://greenmountainfiberfestival.com/

http://www.greenmountainfiberfestival.com/vendors.html    She has a very nice picture of Christopher as a 6 month old for our vendor info.

I need to go load the car for the festival, and get a Shetland fleece washed, and pack & price some Icelandic fleeces. So, I am out of here!!

Have a wonderful Thursday all and hope to see you at the Festival!!!

Thinking of next year's garden

This blog has some wonderful ideas that I may incorporate in the my gardens!

http://chiotsrun.com/2009/03/19/square-foot-gardening-templates/

I love her raised beds, but I don't want to waste what little space I have been given for gardens. The rest of the land is for the animals. So I get creative using every square inch I have with companion planting. My favorite book is Carrots Love Tomatoes. This is the one I have-
http://www.amazon.com/Carrots-Love-Tomatoes-Companion-Successful/dp/0882660640/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1385048479&sr=8-3&keywords=carrots+love+tomatoes .
But, Amazon has plenty of others like it.
 http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_14?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=carrots%20love%20tomatoes&sprefix=Carrots+Love+T%2Caps%2C295&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Acarrots%20love%20tomatoes

And, if you don't want to buy a book, you can go to this web site for a list of companion plants.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companion_plants

Now, if I could get rid of the front lawn, it would look like this!
http://www.thegardenglove.com/easy-steps-to-square-foot-garden-success/

Another interesting site.
http://www.squarefootgardeningtips.com/

Trying Craigslist one more time.

http://nh.craigslist.org/grd/4204133168.html

I have had good success with buying, but not so much with selling. A scammer tried to part me with my money, never mind the sheep, twice. I am willing to try one last time.

We are trying to sell Monster, a 90% Dorset X 10% Border Leicester/Jacob ram lamb for sale. His mother is the cross and his father is 100% Horned Dorset. He was born in February and has been handled enough to keep him friendly, but not aggressively friendly.


I'd like to keep him, but when it comes to breeding time, I don't have space to have 3 rams at once breeding. Not with all of the lambs we kept and the old ladies that are in with the lambs.

This is one of the things that we do here on the farm

From Grit magazine-

http://www.grit.com/animals/natural-fibers-zksz13zgou.aspx?newsletter=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=GRIT%20eNews&utm_campaign=11.01.13%20GRT

Christmas Countdown

Thanksgiving Countdown

Random farm pictures

 The 3 old girls and 11 lambs out on 'new pasture'.

 Foraging in the brush

 The pigs are getting big.

Even Valery's runt caught up with the 2 big boys!

 Jack Black is not so sure about snow on his back...

 Jack says, 'Hurry up and let me in!'

Psycho says, 'No!'

A large number of the girls waiting at the gate for their treat of bread.

Monster

Born February 2013.

90% Dorset, 10% Border Leicester/Jacol

$150

Full ram. Friendly, but not overly friendly!

Yarn giveaway

 Since we hit 300 likes on our Face Book page, we decided to have a yarn giveaway.

Go to our farm page, like the page and then tell us in the comments which yarn you'd

like to try to win. Jerry will pick the winner Halloween night at 6 pm EST.

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ewe-I-Farm/208179205917180

 Left to right-

Romney double twist, 240 yards

Wool with mohair, sock yarn, 400 yards

Wool with nylon, sock yarn, 400 yards

Horned Dorset, worsted

Horned Dorset,  fingering

And, at the very end of the post is the Wool with llama, fingering

Do you like oatmeal?

http://1840farm.com/2013/10/oatmeal-bread/

Wool Arts Tour

A HUGE thank you to all who came out this weekend and purchased from us. We will continue to have $10 adult fleeces and $15 lamb fleeces on sale until they are all gone. All of our fleeces will continue to be 20% off until they are gone. I will work this week getting them up on the fleece blog.

Pictures will be coming as soon as the truck is unpacked and the bag with the camera is located!!

TTFN

https://www.facebook.com/TheWoolArtsTour

http://www.woolartstournh.com/locations/SpinnerFarm.htm