My friend Joanie and I have spent a lot of time this week putting together the Farmers Market booth. And I think it looks really great! Here a few photos of what you should be able to look forward to this summer.
The Topeka Farmers Market runs every Saturday from mid-April through mid-November. Tiny Dino Studios merchandise will be available there most every Saturday and online every week day at tiny dino studios etsy shop.
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Lyra gave birth to a whopper this morning- a 12 pound ram lamb. His name is Perseus.
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When to Buy That Plane Ticket from The New York Times
Titanic’s Sinking: Was it more than human folly? from The Huffington Post
The Disconnect: Why are so many Americans single? from The New Yorker
The Inconvenient Astrologer from M1-5 from the Awl.”What no one realized was that de Wohl’s lecture was pure propaganda from the British government, which was attempting to drag the Roosevelt administration into WWII by any means necessary.”
The Crisis in American Walking: How we got off the pedestrian path. from Slate.
Did you read anything interesting this week?
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This is some lovely merino/angora that I’ve just started spinning. I can’t do the longish draft I normally do since the fibers are quite short so this one’s going to take awhile as I’m much slower when I do a shorter style draft. It’s a good thing it’s such a pleasure to spin!
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Capri is in the pen nearest the camera.
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There are two kinds of waiting during lambing season. There’s the “I-can’t-leave-the-farm-because-someone-could-go-into-labor-at-any-time” kind and then there’s the “We’ve-got-a-ewe-in-labor-but-Oh-My-God!-the-pyramids-were-built-faster-than-this-kind” of waiting.
We did a fair amount of the second kind of waiting yesterday. Darcy was clearly in labor, but she was a first timer and didn’t seem to be in any hurry to move things along. So we sat in the little paddock for a couple of hours, keeping an eye on Darcy and being entertained by Blanca and Fresca.
They are the rascal-iest things you’ve ever seen, investigating everything, tasting everything, jumping on everything.
For a while, the two of them used the pregnant ewes as their own personal trampolines.
Caroline bore further investigation, too.
Caroline also got to spend some quality time with Emma, a mama-to-be for the first time this year.
The waiting can be frustrating but it’s also kind of nice to be forced to sit quietly in one place for a while and just enjoy the animals. It’s a welcome treat in the middle of the otherwise constant hubbub of lambing season. For me, it’s a reminder of how lucky I am to get to be here, doing this work, and how there’s no place in the world I’d rather be.
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I’m doing a trunk show this Saturday in Dubois PA at The Ewenique Sheep. It’s located at 200 Commons Drive in Dubois. 814/590-3897 for more details.
I’ll have all the garments from our Spring/Summer collection for you to ooh and ah over. BONUS- 10% off all JMF yarns purchased during the event.
Looking forward to seeing your smiling faces there!
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