Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

Restoring a historic farm. Raising Icelandic sheep, Guinea hogs & Orpington chickens. Trying not to go broke.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

R.I.P. Ruby

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We lost our dog Ruby today. Yesterday she was fine, and today she was just dead, with no warning. She was getting to be fairly old for suc...
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Monday, January 18, 2010

Trainer Who Starved My Horses Claims Another Victim

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Remember when I posted back in June about the Trainer Who Starved My Horses ? Well, not long ago I was contacted by another horse owner who ...
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Ultra the Fairy Sheep

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Thanks to my Midwinter Half Price Sale, I've sold about a dozen sheep in the past few weeks, and have inquiries about more. I hate to tu...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Wet-Felted Soap and Beads

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After getting used to needle felting for the past month, I decided yesterday that it was time to try a bit of easy wet-felting. I'd att...
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Did You Notice Our Redesign?

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If you look at this blog regularly, it's probably pretty obvious: I gave the blog a bit of a redesign today. Since we finally sold our ...

The Magnetic Attraction of Hay

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This is the time of year when my sheep are mostly eating hay, but I let them have access to our big pasture anyway. There's not much to...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

More Needle Felting

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I spent the long weekend doing more experiments with needle-felting. Like the previous ones, these are all made in natural colored wool fro...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Needle Felted Necklaces

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Today I tried my hand at needle felted wool beads for the first time, using natural-colored Icelandic wool from my own flock. Aren't the...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

A New Home for Senter Stage

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Congratulations to Heather Bolding of Noble Farms in Clinton, IN. She is the new owner of our beautiful Oldenburg stallion, Senter Stage. ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Snow Sheep

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It started snowing here last night at about 4:00 pm. Twenty-one hours later, and it's still coming down. The snow is about knee deep n...
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Nancy Chase
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
Shepherd, Farmer, Artist, Writer.
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