We have survived the winter here...finally, the temperatures are starting to feel like spring! We're down to one fire a day just to warm up the house in the morning. Everyone is ready for it... the horses are bored & tired of hay and ready for some pasture grass!
March came in with one big snowfall!
We had another lamb born just before the snow hit. This little guy is a California Red - Tunis mix. Our son named him Sir Lambs- A lot. Tunis is a breed that Thomas Jefferson had at Monticello. I would love to find a nice Tunis ram...these are such gentle sheep!
Poppy & the ducks...
This is a new experiment, making felted soap with Icelandic wool. This is the sheep milk soap I made 2 weeks ago. Look at that lather!! It still has 2-3 weeks to cure.
Our new chickies... I have no idea what breed they are since the teenage boys bought them.
This was just funny... My youngest son decided this morning that his pajamas were immodest because they didn't have a top button, so he taped it closed. I guess after being bundled in the house up all winter, a little bit of air on skin is shocking, ha!
I absolutely love how this turned out! It is felted soap made with black Icelandic wool. Isn't that beautiful!?
The other is made with the Red's wool... I love the slight variation of color! The wool acts as a washcloth and shrinks in size as your soap shrinks. When the bar runs out you can cut open the felted wool and insert a new bar. These are available to purchase. :)
Another sign of spring...the egg production is stepping up. I'm getting about 4-5 eggs a day from 6 hens. Aren't those the cutest little salt and pepper shakers? I found them at a local thrift shop and couldn't resist, even if they don't dispense the salt fast enough. ;)
My teenage son loves digging around in the yard and finding old buried vintage bottles. I'd rather he found some lost civil war gold, but that's beside the point. ;-) I've turned them into spice jars, and for the ones I can't find cork sizes to fit, I made felted wool balls to help keep the moisture out.
I found this hideous -but -really- cute- in-a -weird- way poncho at a local thrift shop and bought it for my 15 yr old daughter. She loved it and has been wearing it around the house all winter. This is her favorite place to sit, warm by the fire in her poncho with old teddy, keeping me company in the kitchen while I cook. :)
This is the 3rd lamb of the year to be born on a Sunday! Protected by our watchful Pyrenees & sons with swords...
Lambs curious about their new playmate
This is Molly, another Tunis ewe, and half Red- half Tunis lamb that we named Ember. He's a big boy!
Defenders of the barn
Good mom...this is her pawing the ground like a bull, making sure the puppy knows to stay away from her lamb.
Sunbathing... I can't blame them, the sunshine feels amazing! Finally!
Is there anything better than a belly scratching?
These gourds have been sitting out all winter and I think they're finally dried out enough to clean and paint. :) Now that I wont be tending fires all day, I might actually have time to do it...at least until gardening & shearing season kicks in... uuuhhh...and that is very soon.
Last but not least, a vintage lamb pan. A friend told us about an important tradition in his family where the lamb cake is decorated in coconut, and the head is chopped off and saved for whatever relative isn't in attendance...it was just bizarre enough that I knew we had to adopt the tradition! Haha!
Last but in no way least, my oldest son has just enlisted in the Marines. I am so proud of him! I know the hours he's spent working for me chopping wood, moving hay, and doing garden work had made him tougher than you're average 19 yr old, and he is a God fearing, good man. Fighting to preserve our liberties...what parent could ask for more?
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