Cabin Fever
I’m not entirely sure what happened. I thought things were going well. Everyone seemed happy. There was balance. There was unity. Early this morning I wandered into the studio and saw this: A gift,...
View ArticleAn uneasy truce
After an incident the other night, in which a testudine tail was knocked awry by a somewhat vigorous bleater and required immediate surgery with superglue, I decided that enough was enough. While the...
View ArticleLike a cat in a drumcarder….
Drumcarder. Scary tool that cards fleece and sometimes makes holes in people. Tetanus shots = very important in this line of work. I’ve had the drumcarder whirling pretty consistently over the past few...
View ArticleFleeced.
I have to give them credit. Those turtles are better-educated than I thought. I caught them reading Amos Alden’s Big Book of Handspinning to the other day. Which probably makes this whole thing my...
View ArticleThe Day of the Dragon
As you have undoubtedly heard, in the Chinese Zodiac, it is the Year of the Dragon. This is actually a Balinese dragon, but apparently dragons are not very good at geography and he was not aware of...
View ArticleDear Nice Lady…
Dear Nice Lady With the Muddy Hands, We would like to wish you… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MAGICAL MAAIKE!!! Turtles, Sheep and Robots, pay homage to their creator on her birthday. And to say THANK YOU for making...
View ArticleSome days….
… are just days for curling up with a good book, like a Dictionary of Imaginary Places…. …. or an Atlas of Middle Earth, and flying away to parts unknown. Delighted as I am by their literary pursuits,...
View ArticleOnce upon a time….
… there was a little girl who loved sheep. One day she asked her mom for a sheep birthday cake and her mom was stumped. You see, she had already made sheep cakes in the past and she was running out of...
View ArticleInteresting discoveries
The weather prediction was that today would be a snow day. Preparatory to this, I made sure there was chocolate and wine and other Good Things to eat in the house. Last night we had a glass of wine,...
View ArticleRunning (around with) The Goat(s), Part 2: Visiting The Feather
We didn’t expect the goats. Then again, goats are nothing if not unexpected (is that a triple negative or a double?). We had been warned that The Feather was community grazing land and that there were...
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