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On the Peeps front…

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The peeps that Sharon hatched out moved into the chicken coop last week. They were very shy at first but have made themselves right at home. They are a great variety of colors and are great fun to watch.

There are several lovely Turkens who, it turns out, grow up to be great egg layers.

And, speaking of eggs, last year’s peeps are producing very well. There are plenty of eggs and they are for sale.

The guineas are busy all day long with their fast and furious ‘bug patrol’.

Isn’t that a good looking bird?

When the need arises, the guineas can move and move fast!

And here are the newest ‘Peeps’ additions; lavender Guinea keets picked up Saturday at the local Southern States store.

This week… in the dye pot

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Bronze fennel (Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpurascens’) dyeing lace-weight yarn and


some of Daisy’s lovely ‘lamb-locks’ which are now in the process of being hand-picked (mostly because we just can’t keep our hands off them.)


Hibiscus dyeing worsted weight yarn

We’re also experimenting with what we think might be majoram that has been growing in the lower garden for several years. (In fact, so many years that we can’t remember what it really is.) Anyway it is in the dye-pot boiling away so keep your fingers crossed that this smelly mass of chopped up green matter produces the ‘fragrant, unpromising dull gold’ dyebath the book says it should.

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What a treat! Our first white lambs from Blackberry. Her lambs have always had just beautiful fleeces so we are anxious to see how these white ones develop.

A ram 12 lbs 1 oz born first.

Then a very strange ‘butt-first’ delivery of a lovely little ewe. Thank goodness she weighed 4 lbs less than her big brother. She weighed in at 8 lbs 9 ozs