My chickens always seem to be in competition with each other. Either they are working hard to get the best bits out of the treat bucket or they are strutting and clucking to get the most attention from the head rooster. Today apparently there was an egg laying competition with awards presented for the largest…
Month: October 2013
New Additions
Tower Ranch is happy to announce we are adding Teeswater Sheep to our flock in the spring. We have reserved lambs from Ovelha Acres that will hopefully be coming home to Alaska in April. Vulcan a yearling ram at Ovelha Acres Look at those long lustrous locks! I can’t wait to feel them. I am in…
Life Finds A Way
Professor Malcolm made this proclamation about dinosaurs in Jurassic Park and I find myself repeating it when I find little bits of life in the most unlikely places. This fall has been unusually warm giving more time than usual to put the yard to bed. I got the chance to mow up some leaves,…
The Wheels of Change
Everybody asks me “What do you do with your sheep?” My typical answer is pet them and feed them and watch them, it’s very relaxing. But there’s another side to shepherding, a darker side, one you can never fully recover from… Fiber Arts. Fiber Arts are all those things you do with the wool once…
Fantastic Fiber Retreat
There are so many good things about this retreat that I just don’t know where to start. Lets start with Art. My friend and neighbor Becky created this amazing “painting” using nothing but fiber. I can’t wait to see it framed. I talked to many about the wonderful uses of fiber and got schooled on…
What a Wonderful World
Some years fall in Alaska is those two days between rain and snow where the sky clears and the temperatures drop and the leaves change color so fast you can watch it happen. This year it has been a multi-week progression, without wind or snow to hasten the process. I find myself stopping to enjoy…
I’ve Got Good Taste
Or maybe I’m just lucky. Recently one of our local fiber community matriarchs posted that she had 10 fleeces dyed, all but the EK fleece as it is special and needs to be treated with the utmost care. I had no idea this breeders fleeces are so highly prized, and I was very proud to…
Night Walks
Night owls have their own special world quite different from early birds. Their circadian rhythm is marked by a completely different drum. The moon and stars are the light that marks their days and suns warmth is the blanket that covers them while they sleep. I dangle precipitously somewhere in between. Existing mainly in the…
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