Puppy Pictures

Here are pictures of the puppies from today. They are 2 weeks old this weekend. Their eyes are starting to open and they are getting up a little. Every now and then you will hear a little yipe coming from the crate!

First Order

I am getting ready to ship my first "real sale" to a shop here in Michigan!!! I am so excited. She wanted just raw angora fiber, but she needs 8 ounces which doesn't seem like alot but since it is so light it is quite a bit. I was concerned I didn't have enough in stock and still have enough to spin with, but after going through all of what we have there was PLENTY with more to spare! LOL Not much else is happening here. The puppies are doing great and getting bigger every day. Hubby is on a business trip to New York and Massachusetts this week and won't be home until Friday night. I already miss him. It is really hard when he travels on both of us. I end up doing all 5 of the kids running alone, and he is driving between the two states this week so he will have a long one too. Here are some pictures of my first sale ready to be boxed and sent.

Baby English Angoras

These will be available in mid-May. They are pedigreed and I am asking $50 each. I have BEW, REW, and torte.

Things are blooming on the farm

What a weekend! 4 of the 5 kids have had the "plague" since Thurs. Our youngest had to be taken to the e.r. at 2 a.m. Sunday morning with an asthma attack, he is at home but has some kind of virus. My bedroom is an infirmary right now. Sat morning around 1 a.m. it was a nursery as our lab had her pups! 9 beautiful pups, 3 chocolate and 6 black, just like mama. So between the two nights hubby and I got very little sleep! We did have a blessed Easter although only half of us were at church together. I am also posting pictures of the baby angoras, they have grown ALOT in a week. I finally got a chocolate angora (that I a keeping for myself) You can see he has a white stripe, which my horse crazy daughter informed me it would be called a "blaze" by all the "horse experts" so that might be his name! Thanks Bekah! The bunnies and puppies are ALL for sale!!! I also sent out my first sample skein of angora yarn to a shop in hopes of selling some!!!

Baby Angora bunnies!!!!

We had another batch of angora babies on Wednesday night while we were at church!! These are English angoras ( I think they look like ewoks) They look like little rats right now, the pictures were taken right after they were born! There are 7 of them. Hopefully we will be able to sell some of them! We had a lot of people interested when we had the french angoras for sale, everyone wanted these kind so we are hopeful that we can sell at least half of them. We did end up selling 3 of the 7 french babies. Today is our 17th wedding anniversary! It measures up to about 30 years in today standards! We will hopefully be celebrating in May up at Mackinaw Island! We already have reservations at the Inn that we have stayed at the last few years. Hubby will be gone about 2 weeks, every month, out of the next 3 months on business, so the trip will be a welcomed change after him being gone so much!

Yarn in shop

I have 4 new skeins of yarn that are for sale. They vary in yardage and price. Angora yarn is 7 times warmer than wool and has a beautiful "halo" effect when crocheted or knitted. They are sometime referred to as "urban sheep" due to the fact that alot of people in apartments or homes in the city can keep angoras as a source of fiber. We comb ours out to get the fiber (no, we do not kill them!) and then we spin them here at home. I have two grey skeins (although the rabbits would be considered a "black color") and two natural skeins. I charge $0.28 a yard. The skeins range from $23 to $38 and they are between 84 yards to 140 yards. Leave a comment here if you are interested in them or would like more information. I can also dye a skein any color you have in mind.

Happenings

I havent taken the time to post anything for awhile, so I thought I would get some pictures on to show what has been going on. We are FINALLY coming out of winter and seeing the sun, it was in the 50's here yesterday and hopefully more of the same the next couple of days. Two of my kids got 4-H medals for their rabbit project (showing). We are really proud of that! We had 2 medals and one rosette, and 3 honorary ribbons won at fair last year! I cant wait for this year. I have become interested in finding ways to make at much food around here as I can. Yes, I have always done this to some degree but I am trying to be ever more innovative. One of the pictures is of our 3 youngest making egg noodles we made ALOT (as you can see from the pic) and they were delicious! A couple of years ago when Grandma moved into her new place we did a table swap and we took the table that has many memories for my husband and even for the kids and I. Well, we (I:)) have wanted benches for them because some times we have been known to have 8 or more kids around it, so I asked my father in law if he could make some and they turned out beautiful. Joshua is showing us how real men drink chocolate milk! We also went to visit my sister and spend the day so I put in a picture of my niece isn't she sweet?!! Here are all the pictures: