~Catching up............

Illness and farming have overtaken us here at Tylerfarm the last few days. I fall out of bed in the morning and fall into it at night, as early as possible. The weather has finally decided that it really is spring in the Northeast. Temps in the 50's with a little wind each day. We seem to go from one season to the other overnight. Believe it or not, we desperately need rain. It's dangerously dry and fire is on everyone's mind. Many, many brush fires have claimed homes, forests and sadly, lives in the last week. We have been raking up paddocks of all the dried hay and leaves, keeping the fire danger as low as possible.

This is the spring paddock where our ewes and new lambs will be turned out once the grass is growing.

Below are a few photos of what else has been going on around here:

The last pygora kids born to Lace on 4/13/09. Lemon & Lime - they are doing wonderful. They are going to be a champagne color. They explored outside briefly yesterday afternoon. Hopefully they will do the same today and I can get photos of them exploring to post.

Lambing is imminent. Should be just another week before we start. I have some very hefty ladies :) Daphne (closest in the photo) is showing signs of being close, a swollen udder and she gets very affectionate just before she delivers.


Gus & Squirt have graduated.....they now go out to the big pasture with the cows everyday. They are loving this :) Donkey and the others checked them out thoroughly for a few minutes but after that everyone settled in and these guys are now just one of the group. They sure love the "hay anytime we want it" service. They are both thriving. I couldn't be happier with these calves.

We have several pair of geese that are landing on the pond nearby....this morning they were honking loudly as they flew overhead, greeting us as we started the day.

A new piece of ground, ready to be tilled and planted. I can't wait until the grass is a foot tall! The cows will be very happy to have another pasture to graze in and we will have to purchase less hay!

and......a new shipment of yarn has arrived. 56 beautiful skeins of natural gray pygora/merino blend. I'm anxious to find time to start dyeing this yarn. Greens and raspberry and aztec gold, yum!

It's a bright, sunny day and there are sheep waiting to be sheared and new fleece to be picked over :)

Thank you for checking in with us. I apologize for such a long time between posts.

I hope all is well where you are. Have a great day everyone!