Juliet has an open-air condo where she can enjoy the outdoors safely. (Thank you Jonathan!) She seems to like it even better when she has company. It is a very popular hang-out. Kinsey came to visit Juliet and got to help feed her 
and play in her condo. 
Rufus the Naked Mole Rat Rabbit has been spending the days with her and really enjoys the exercise and green refreshments. 
Lena and Harley stop by quite often for some ‘tent time’. 
Juliet loves all the attention.
The old-fashioned iris plants are just beginning to bloom in the garden. We are enjoying them so much! Iris flowers have been one of our favorites since we were little girls. Each bloom is so delicate, so unique.
The chive plants have also started blooming. We will take the opportunity to make chive vinegar this weekend. It’s one of our favorite ingredient for salad dressings.
The lavender plants should begin blooming soon. So it’s time to enjoy the purple in the garden and savor every moment of spring!
While taking the bio-mower pictures, I decided to stalk… errr… follow these two cute little lambs in an attempt to capture the fun that they were having.
Things were going pretty well… I was snapping away, sure that soon I would get the picture that captured the carefree feeling of the afternoon.
Look! Who should suddenly come charging in to the picture frame but Miss Lucy, and she is all like ‘you didn’t tell me that there was a photo shoot going on’. Daimhin (daw+veen) and little Mr. 915 are all of a sudden like ‘Oh, excuse me, your royal highness’.
Oh my gosh, maybe Miss Lucy really does run things around here!
Spring is not complete without the great taste of rhubarb: pie, jello, crisp, jam . . . doesn’t matter as long as it is rhubarb. 
Recently, a very gracious neighbor shared her bountiful supply with us. Having recently seen somewhere that the leaves are good for dyeing wool, we requested the poisonous leafy tops be left on so we could shred them up and try our hand at dyeing. We ended up with 6 pounds of leaves. After soaking them overnight we put them on the stove. The boiling leaves smelled very good, and turned into a spinach-like mush. 
We tried 4 ounces of wool in one of the pots, (had to boil them in 3 different pots we had so many) simultaneously mordanting with alum and cream of tarter. Brought to 200 degrees for 45 minutes producing a kind of semi-pretty gold/yellow/green color not represented very well in the following picture: 
Then for the last 15 minutes we added tin mordant which turned it a pretty bright yellow which is actually somewhere in the middle of the hues that the camera picked up in these two pictures. 
Closest to this brighter color. 
Which is really one of the prettiest yellows we have gotten from our natural dyes. We may just have to try this same process again.
The bio-mowing continues! How about this cute little line-up of busy bio-mowers, fancy footwork and all.
The 2nd Annual Loosing of the Bio-Mowers has begun in the barnyard. We found this to be a great way to provide a little extra grass while the pasture is getting that spring kick-start.
(Of course the time and money saved by not having to mow the barnyard is not bad either.)
The ‘Mod Squad’ has adjusted quite well to life in the pasture. Mama Hera sneaks into the barn every morning for her extra helping of grain and seems to be providing plenty of milk for her three little ones. Linc, Pete and Julie enjoy playing with the other lambs but really are never very far from their mama’s side. They make quite the little parade as they make their way through the pasture.
The past few weeks there has been a lot of this going on…
and this…
But, things have quieted down quite a bit now that everyone (mama ewes and little lambs) are more comfortable and much more ‘organized’. The lambs are becoming a little more independent and they no longer answer every mama’s “baaaa”. And the ewes are becoming a little less possessive and no longer answer every little lamb’s “maaaa”. All in all things are a lot quieter and a lot more relaxed in the pasture.
