Happy Thanksgiving!

Well Strutter and his girls are marked safe from the Thanksgiving table and always will be! Strutter spent his day with two nice meals and strutting about the back yard for his ladies and anyone who would tell him how handsome he is. That's all you have to tell this boy and he will display all day for you! He has no problem with being humble, not! 

Gigi prefers the bird bath water over the fresh clean water that was just filled in the coop. How we can tell this is Gigi, she has a red head. Gigi tends to be broody often and is still laying eggs which we wish she would stop! She loves to fly up on the coop and sing her turkey song.

Flossy, who has a blue head just happened to be walking by and stopped as if to pose for this picture. It was perfect. She had a hard molt but has finally recovered well and has grown in beautifully. All the turkeys displayed a lot of gratefulness today. This heritage breed is a favorite here on our farm and their antics could be watched all day if we didn't have so much to do! 

 

New England Fiber Festival 2022

This year's Fiber Festival did not disappoint. We did a record year and were beyond busy. I did get a small window to see some things before I was called back. This work on this rug was amazing. The use of colors, shades and layers is just amazing. I adore birch trees so this one just made me stop and stare in awwwww.

One vendor had an amazing privacy wall. 

This caught my eye in a needle felting stand. They had some great pieces but of course this was one of my favorites, mom and baby coon. 

           It's a carriage full of bunnies! These folks came by with bunch of angoras.

By the end of the show, all the animals were done...

This llama and baby cria were beyond exhausted. As we put this year's festival in the rear mirror, we thank it for once again being good to us. Until next year!

 

That's all folks, for now!

 It looks like it's the end of egg season. Our girls have all but ceased to lay eggs. we are getting about 2 a day out of 30 chickens! 

It happens this time of year as they are molting to bring in new feathers, the loss of daylight and they begin to conserve energy to deal with the cold. 

If we get a surge of eggs with this unusually warm weather, we will be sure to post that we have available eggs. The cost of eggs in the grocery store is insane these days as the feed prices have also gone up. It looks like for us, eggs will be a luxury.