Time well spent

Spent just a little time with the kids and lambs at the front pasture, sitting under the oak trees, watching them graze and play. Trinket doesn't like to participate with the other sheep and goats, she prefers to stay to herself and perch on a rock so she can watch them at a distance. Probably because she is so small, hence the name Trinket, she is picked on by the other goats, even her own mother and twin. So it earned her a place with the kids and lambs her size so she can have someone to pick on, until they get older and bigger, and Trinket will never get any bigger.

Cool Blue

It's hard to stay in the garage long enough to do any carding, but this blue Cotswold wool carded easily. I am dyeing any shade of blue since it does make you feel cooler. I'll get back to the reds when the temp drops a bit. Sales of wool and rovings drop off this time of year, guess it just gets too hot to think about wool. Like the heart of winter when I spin by the wood stove, the heart of summer can be spent spinning in front of the AC vent. I feel like I am wasting my day staying in the house, but when it gets brutal best to stay in and not fight it, you can't win. Now, onto the two bushels of tomatoes sitting by the door.

All the pretty horses

When life gets hard for me, ( worrying about all the sheep and goats in the heat and drought), I get quiet. I don't want to talk about it. If you don't say it, it ain't so. But it is a fact that it has been a tough summer and I hope relief is on its way, soon. Meanwhile, the new Gypsy pony, Road Warrior, is happy here at his new home. He has a long road ahead of him until we get where we are going. He enjoys walking in the creek and got his first water hose bath today, he danced around me in circles, but finally gave in and afterwards he felt so good he put on a show of running and bucking. It was pure magic on a hot Georgia Sunday afternoon. Just the thing to take my mind off all my worries. Many, many thanks to my friend Toni for sending this colt into my life.