May 3, 2009

Rain through the night and this morning with showers on and off all day long. We put Calamity out in the ring. We did not put any other horses in with her today. Sparky, the gelding was all out of sorts and reached over the fence biting the mares. Calamity is doing really well letting Dusty work on her feet, mane and tail. She seems to crave attention.

We found Beverly, our old angora goat, out in the barn area. I guess it was her time to go. A lot of our sheep and goats are getting very old and beginning to dye out. It seems like several go at one time. If we have an animal for a long time, we do not cull them and send them to the stock yard. We let them live out their days on the farm.

Donny spent the day working on the carding studio and getting the carder ready to process fiber. I will begin with that shortly.

I spent a lot of the day in the house working on the afghan. Feeding went well.