Sheep, sun and dogs

These are Moll and Tanya- my relatively new Gotland-Finn sheep that I received as a promised Christmas present from my wonderful husband.  Tanya was small when I got her so they are in with my skinny sheep getting extra nutrition, and she is making good gains.  I am really looking forward to playing with their wonderful wool and maybe breeding Moll next year.

We have been having a very nice, sunny, warm September.  This is welcome because otherwise my green beens and corn would not have ripened.  I still am not holding out much hope for the tomatoes, cucumber and squash because of our incredibly cool, wet late spring.  We'll see.  In addition to the garden vegetable plants, the dogs are also enjoying the nice weather!

Washington Wool and Schoonover Farm products

I've been busy creating on-line stores.  It started out when I was having T-shirts made with the Washington Wool dot Net logo on them and I didn't order the right sizes for people.  So I decided to create T-shirts at www.cafepress.com with the logo and people who wanted shirts could order them with their own sizes.  Then I noticed you could create all kinds of products like cards, stickers, magnets, signs, etc. so I went wild, putting the logo on everything.  The result is at:

http://www.cafepress.com/WashWool

Then I thought about making these products with my favorite photos from my own farm.  I made up shirts, pictures, stickers, cards, etc. with these photos and created another store at:

http://www.cafepress.com/Schoonoverfarm

Scoop the Poop

Table of Taters

Back to the Farm Blog

We have been busy vacationing and working, and I have been neglecting the blog.  I haven't been neglecting the animals though- just doing the daily chores.  Now it's time to get ready for winter- cleaning out the barn, spreading manure, fixing shelters, putting up the last of the hay, chipping trees, and harveting fruits and vegetables.  I also need to sell off the last of the yearling rams and wethers, or we will consider butchering them in the next 1-2 months.  So I took up to date photos of them to try to attract a Shetland fiber loving shepherd to take them in.  I hope this will work out since neither Tom or I like to eat lamb, and it's a shame to have such beautiful wool go to waste.