Cold mornings

The ducks are not happy with the cold mornings. Takes awhile to get all the water tanks warmed and buckets deiced. With the short daylight hours there is not enough time to get a lot of work done other than caring for the stock. Got to keep them happy. Happy sheep and goats make good fiber, good fiber makes spinners happy, happy spinners buy fiber, shepherd buys feed and hay, the local economy keeps going, people have a job, (people that want a job). Too cold to work with wool outside so decided to wash fleeces inside, small amounts of fiber soaking in buckets. It works good for Cormo fleeces which is easier to get the grease out of the tips in small batches. Takes longer but the results are good. Have dye pots of tea dyed wool and pomegranite going on the wood stove. Not many days in the year I can stoke the stove up hot enough to set the dye, but the warmth and aroma felt good today.