Out Of The Barn

Can you imagine spring without spring flowers? I definitely can’t.

I enjoy flowers tremendously. We live in the great outdoors completely surrounded by woods. Right now spring flowers are making their way up through the earth and towards the sun.

Here are some flower pictures I want to share with you. I only have three kinds of spring flowers that I have taken pictures of and they are tulips, daffodils and narcissus.

I have been taking the opportunity to go for a walk to spend quality time with the kids and it has been great. They have been telling me what to take pictures of and what not to. Some of the pictures they want me to take I have chosen not to. =)

On our strolls we have seen small waterfalls, many types of birds, tree stands, chipmunks, squirrels, and various flowers.

I want to change the setting on this blog, but it takes me about 4 hours to accomplish that.  So they are still the same boring blue.  Sorry about that.  Maybe I will work on that this weekend. 

The weather is still beautiful here. 

I have taken a picture of my 1 lb. of roving.  It is beautiful.   I have never worked with cooperworth, but I feel it is a lot easier than merino.   I can get the size of the yarn exactly the way I want and the yarn is more consistent. 

I know this is not a picture of 1 lb. of roving, but I was taking pictures today of the animals and I took one of our free roaming rooster.  Isn’t he a handsome boy!

Today I received 1 lb. of roving from a lady at, Ossiana’s,  my youngest daughter’s school.  It is so pretty.  I used a drop spool spindle and cannot work it very well.  I am getting better as I practice.  It would be great to have a wheel, but they are a bit out of my price range.  I am hoping to tackle some of it today.    

I enjoy spinning and knitting with natural fibers, raising chickens, horses.  Basically the whole gamut of what small farming entails.  I would enjoy adding sheep to my list or goats.  That would be a bit difficult because we live on one acre and our 2 horses take up a majority of our 1 acre.  I do know that large animal wise we have our limit, but I do not consider sheep a large animal.  We will see.  

I know the kids would enjoy it.  I have been considering possibly raising angora rabbits.  I used to raise them awhile ago, but I got out of it.  That maybe the better alternative to sheep.   

The picture here is one of our roosters that we aquired from our friend.