Friday, December 31, 2010

Cinnamon



She is here, sweet, beautiful, kicking up her heels already. Cinnamon arrived the evening of Dec. 26th, Tinkerbell's fourth calf, and first one to be a girl. That day Tressa was making biscuits that she covered with generous pinches of cinnamon, the smell and fine red dust all over her hands, the counter, a little bit sprinkling down to the floor- the calf looked like she had been in the kitchen and been sprinkled by Tressa too, just exactly that color, and so her name is Cinnamon.

Wishing everyone a healthy and prosperous New Year!

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Winter morning chores


Tinkerbell is about to have her calf! Just got back from morning chores- winter morning chores, snowy, quiet, chickadees singing- and still no baby yet, but she is close. She is in the barn with some of this year's lambs, as well as a few renegade chickens and our barn cats, River, Fuzzy, Raindrop and Bone. Most of the chickens are in the greenhouse, their winter quarters, where they can keep scratching in the dirt even when there is snow outside. The chickens' egg production follows the light, and so in December we were down to one egg a day, and then no egg on the solstice, but this morning we are back to one...and that's from forty hens! More daylight, more eggs, so it will only go up from here, but in the meantime we have been getting eggs for breakfast from neighbors who have lights in their hen house.

I walk by our clay oven on the way to the greenhouse, all tucked under a snowy roof, so quiet compared to the fire and bustle of summer pizza nights. These quieter winter days are fueled by the abundance of summer, in the hay we feed to the cow and sheep, the berries we have on our pancakes for breakfast this morning, the memories we carry tucked in our pockets.

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Wool Comforters Are Here!

Tired of lots of heavy blankets on your bed?

These comforters are light and toasty warm. They are made with 100% Bonnieview sheep wool. While supplies last, we have Queen sized comforters (90" x 90") and Twins (90" x 72"). Prices, including shipping to anywhere in the continental US, are as follows:

Queen comforter, 90" x 90"..........$220
Twin comforter, 90" x 72".............$170

And, of course, there is still time to order cheese!