Tiny baby animal season continues.

Goatlings started making an appearance as of last night.

Really treacherous footing over here reflecting the current events landscape a bit.

I just keep thinking of the quote along the lines of, “You’re lucky women only want equality and not revenge.” #ERA

I recently learned that for weavers there is a ‘Green Book’ (‘A Handweaver’s Pattern Book’) which is a sort of rare and helpful holy grail of a book - and I love that for them. Shepherds have Laura Lawson’s ‘Red Book’ and ‘Blue Book’ which are both vitally helpful out of print books. #sidequests

PSA to my friends in California near the fires: breathing in wildfire smoke is really bad for you (even if it’s not super thick where you are) but if you have face masks (N95, KN95, etc) those can help a lot

Left two rams with only a cattle panel dividing them while I moved some ewes the other day and came back to a busted (the wire is ripped in the middle?!) cattle panel and two bloody rams. I should’ve known better with these hormonal dudes. Ridiculous, boys, just ridiculous.

Updated my bio here to include the phrase ‘word diarrhea’ so you know this is a very professional account.

The ‘fluffy chickens’ got an automatic coop door the other day but they’re either too blinded by their fluff or too… not smart… to use it. Anticipating needing to shoo them inside every evening for at least the next week. #silkies #darwinaward

It went from -2° to 55° and supposedly back down to around 7° this weekend so… that’s been a trip. Using this brief (maybe?) spell of thawed ground to drive in t posts for some new fence.

Happy belated Yule/Winter Solstice! ❄️

Welcome to our house, the floor isn’t lava but please jump over the salted sheepskins on your way in. #shepherding

Had been planning to expand our layer flock a bit for 2025, but with everything happening with #H5N1 that doesn’t seem wise now. In 2023 the stress of keeping our birds under cover during the migratory bird season for HPAI was a bit much (they also didn’t enjoy being cooped up, excuse the pun).

Vörður and Dimmet in the snow. Apparently all I have to talk about is the weather and sheep/animals/plants. #IcelandicSheep

Cary Wolinsky’s ‘Half Shorn Sheep’ tinyurl.com/4mm4xzym

A cool visual, would’ve loved to see it on one of the longer wool breeds.

7°F this morning and all of our wool is finally out to the mills - hoping to get it back in the form of lovely yarn around this time next year. 🐏🧶❄️

Rosie has discovered that she can sneak under the goat fence to hang out with Beowulf and they’ve been having a grand old time ever since.

An attempt to get away from Meta. Here’s a goat.