Pine Needle Farm

We have a lot of predators around here these days!  A Swainson's hawk has been eyeing the poultry.  I think it got one of the baby turkeys, there are only five of them now.  The bear has shredded every stump around the perimeter of the fence and every log that I see out in the woods.  There are plenty of ants for it to eat this year.  They are everywhere!  I think the mountain lion has moved on, the deer are back.  There are two bucks that are hanging out here now.  I haven't seen or heard the fox lately, nor the coyotes.

   Spunky is now 14 days old.  He is too little to go out in the pasture with the herd to eat, so I am babysitting him for a couple of hours while his mom goes out.  I did that for three days, then decided that was getting old and now I put Molly and him in the yard to eat while the rest of the herd goes out into the big world to eat.  The bucks are still in their pens, so she has some company in sight.  Spunky has fun jumping up on the big rocks and stump that are around.

   I did well at the fiber festival held at the fairgrounds this last week-end.  The skein of cashmere-silk yarn I entered got "best in show".  That was pretty neat!  It's for sale in the local harvest store.  And no, the price did not go up. ?  The Farmers' Market was pretty good, I sold a decent amount.  There weren't that many people wandering through this week.  Too many other things going on in the Valley.  The summers are short and jam-packed these days.

That's all for now...