Fall wool dyeing day!

Goldenrod dyed wool!

Homemade peach pie.

Saucy Sunday......

Soon to be sauce!

Fresh from the garden!!!

Fresh Water.....

Rather than continuing to buy bottled water, we went online and found these glass bottles and jugs. We fill them with our filtered well water, and refrigerate some and keep some at room temperature. Water is always at the ready and we're not drinking plastics any more!

Passed out puppy!

Japanese & lemon cucumbers

Bounty shot from garden for photo shoot!

We hosted a photo shoot for a Park Place Magazine entertaining article about us and our farm.  It will appear March / April 2011.  We were worried we wouldn't have enough stuff fromm our garden..... we were wrong!  Nothing to worry about!  We're still eating from this harvest days later.

They're here!

The tomatoes are beginning to ripen.... There's going to be a flood of tomatoes once they start coming..... The plants are approaching 8' tall! Get the canning jars ready!

Banana boat dessert?

Mmmmm.... Grahm cracker, banana, & choco pudding dessert!!!

Dinner!

Fresh Tomatoes with herbs!

Chives, basil, tarragon, lemon juice, toasted pine nuts, olive oil, & parmesan cheese.

Fresh and delicious!

Newbies!

Baby Jacob Sheep.  We bought them from a couple in Far Hills.  So adorable!  Meet Jake, Emily, Sadie, and Fanny.

Strawberries!

Looks like it's going to be a bumper crop!

Bee hives assembled and ready to be painted!

I took the 'beeginners beekeeping class' last fall.  Getting ready to begin my apiary carreer.  Next step.... painting the outsides of the hives so I will be ready when the bees come in late May or early June!

Welcome Sara & Hazel !!!

Mini-donkeys!  We bought them from a local farm.  We went there to look at some baby pot-belly pigs she had, but we weren't really into them....... We'd like pigs, but have to really think about how and where to house them..... they need some warmth in the winters.  While there, we met Sara and Hazel, and really enjoyed their calm, sweet dispositions.  As they say..... got to the store for a quart of milk, come back with food for an army.......  Hazel is pregnant..... due end of June!  Our first baby on the farm.... Can't wait!

Time for a haircut!

Donatella getting a new 'do.

Springtime shearing of the llamas!  We will send the fiber away and have it cleaned.  Some of it will return as rovings (ready to be spun) and some of it will be spun into yarn!  This will be our first fiber from our llamas. 

Conchita's new 'do

Conchita's sporting a new 'Dr. Seuss' look!

Spring haircut.

Conchita in the chair..... not minding TOO much.

Spring Cleaning Farm-style!!

Time to clean out the compost bin..... and get the garden ready for planting.   We borrowed our neighbor's tractor.... would have taken forever otherwise! 

Playing?

Bob the llama guy says female llamas don't fight.... 'they might just be playing....'
I'm not so sure about that!

Great day for a llama walk!

Larry holds the llamas for a picture.

Puppies in the snow!

Lola and Zubin are Akbash puppies.  They are just under a year old here.  They live in our barn next to the sheep, goats, and turkeys.  When they are older, they will live in with them all, and protect them from anything that may come around.  For now, they are too young and playful..... they can only mix on leash and supervised...... they have no idea how big they are!

They don't mind at all..... We catch them sleeping in it all the time!

It's getting deep around here!

Beau decided that cross country skiing....is not his thing !

Donatella loves a closeup!

Are you lookin' at me?

Whole wheat tortelini!

We got the pasta attachment for the Kitchen-Aide stand mixer!  Very fun, and easy to make pasta....... This was our first tortelini...... stuffed with goat cheese, swiss chard, and carmelized onions!  MMMMMMM......

The barn in the snow!