Caprine Corner

I spent the weekend in Kellyville, Ok. at Fiber Christmas in July..  Did very well, sold tons of goat milk soap, some handspun yarn, hand dyed roving and a few felted scarves, purses and knitted items..  I has been so hot and humid that the garden is at a stand still.. alive but not doing anything..  The soap making pots and the dye pots will be very busy getting caught up and ready for the fall and Christmas rush..  I am getting very excited about the business..  Everything seems to be falling into place,, even though the studio is still not done I am well on my way to developing a large customer base and am working hard at getting the fiber animals I want..  next spring should be very exciting waiting on new little Nigerian babies and hopefully some angora  kids and baby lambs.. oh this sound like so much fun..  milk and fiber, throw in a few herbs and life can't get much better.. 

It has been so hot here the garden has stopped doing what a garden is suppose to do.  There are no tomatoes coming on, the pepper plants have a few flowers but have decided not to produce any peppers.. the okra is only about a foot tall and there only a few squash(who ever heard of only a few squash)..  The rabbits are nice and fat since they ate off all the beans.  I have dried up the does, it has been way too hot and they were way down on their milk.  I have plenty frozen to make soap this fall and be ready for the Christmas rush..  The chicks from this spring are really big and  so spoiled.  They are at the deck gate every morning waiting for me to toss out some corn, then they spend the day under the bushes trying to stay cool.. I hope they don't forget that they should be thinking about starting to lay.  I will be redoing the hen house this fall as they have been in the greenhouse, at least in the evening.