Busy Days

The past few weeks have been busy getting in veggies from the garden, tidying up flower beds that have gone to seed, and preparing for the cooler days of fall.

The boy goats have grown to the point where they needed to be separated from the girls. The boys are not happy with this move and make a point of telling the whole neighborhood that fact. At night we have to shut them in so they will quiet down. Since the shelter in their pasture didn't have a door on it, Marc would move them to the alpaca barn and shut them in since the alpacas typically spend the warm evenings outside. Here's a picture of their first move to the alpaca barn...
And here are the alpacas wondering why these strange creatures are in their barn...
Today Wayne and Marc built a new 'buck bunkhouse' that we can shut the boys in at night. The alpacas are happy to have their barn back to themselves.

The other day Wayne was helping me clean the dust off the coils of the refrigerator. Ian wanted to help put things back together. Right after this picture was taken he handed Wayne the screwdriver and said, "Here you go, I've done enough."

Here is what I've been up to in my 'free time' over the past week ...
The yarn is all handspun alpaca, the knit neckwarmer and fingerless gloves are from handspun wool I spun from roving purchased at Rhinebeck a last year, and the goat milk soap is curing for the farmers market/craft sale on the 25th. I'm working on a earwarmer this week and have spun 2 more skeins of alpaca. Before I know it the 25th will be here so I need to keep spinning and knitting.