I found a great site that has good directions and photos on how to brush your dog's teeth.
I brush my dog's teeth everyday and she looks very young. She is now eleven years old and her teeth are white and her breath is fresh. We have never had to have her teeth cleaned at the vet's office.
Teeth brushing can add an average of two years to a dog's life.
Monday, March 22
Yarn Party & Lambing at Feederbrook
The Yarn Party was a blast! It was very well attended and I got some great stuff! I met some great people. I met a wonderful woman at Lisa's booth who let me try her English wool combs and diz to make roving from washed fleece. So cool! She bought one of Lisa's lambs who is a Shetland/BLF/Wenslydale cross and has deposits on 3 more Finn Sheep lambs from another breeder. She also has rabbits, dogs, cats and chickens on her farm in PA. Her farm is not too far from my brother's place in New Freedom.
Lisa had some awesome yarns for sale at her booth. All of her yarn is tagged with a photo of the sheep it came from along with a short description of the sheep's personality. So fun! Lisa even has some yarn from Maggie's first shearing! Just like Baby's First Haircut! Hooray!
This past week's Fiber Project meeting was about Lambing. Just before we arrived, a lamb was born. I got to hold it while Lisa applied Iodine to the umbilical cord!
We also got to see Lisa give inoculations and apply ear tags to two twin lambs. The lambs protested, but only a little. They are tough and enjoyed a lot of cuddling and petting. We all got to hold them. When we let them back into the pen they ran over to mom and it was so funny to see their little greeting. It looked a little bit like mom was counting them. There are about twenty lambs now and lambing season is about half over.
I took lots of photos and I hope to have them posted this week. I also got lots of photos of the bison on a nearby farm.
This week, Lisa will be shearing the rams. She is concerned that they will not recognize each other after-wards and there will be fighting. Sheep are very visual.
Lisa had some awesome yarns for sale at her booth. All of her yarn is tagged with a photo of the sheep it came from along with a short description of the sheep's personality. So fun! Lisa even has some yarn from Maggie's first shearing! Just like Baby's First Haircut! Hooray!
This past week's Fiber Project meeting was about Lambing. Just before we arrived, a lamb was born. I got to hold it while Lisa applied Iodine to the umbilical cord!
We also got to see Lisa give inoculations and apply ear tags to two twin lambs. The lambs protested, but only a little. They are tough and enjoyed a lot of cuddling and petting. We all got to hold them. When we let them back into the pen they ran over to mom and it was so funny to see their little greeting. It looked a little bit like mom was counting them. There are about twenty lambs now and lambing season is about half over.
I took lots of photos and I hope to have them posted this week. I also got lots of photos of the bison on a nearby farm.
This week, Lisa will be shearing the rams. She is concerned that they will not recognize each other after-wards and there will be fighting. Sheep are very visual.
Monday, March 8
Poster Contest at MD Sheep & Wool 2010
Here are runners up and the winners of the Maryland Sheep & Wool Poster contest for 2010. I especially like Betttie Sperty's art at the bottom of the page. I Googled, but couldn't find any contact info for her.
You Know You Have Too Much Yarn When...
I came across this article this morning. I hope it is a joke, but I suspect for some knitters, is isn't:
When the Stash Attacks: Creative Techniques for Concealing Your Yarns
When the Stash Attacks: Creative Techniques for Concealing Your Yarns
Wednesday, March 3
Third Annual Homespun Yarn Party!
Feederbrook Farm will be at the Third Annual Homespun Yarn Party.
What:
Yarn Party! Check out local yarn vendors, sit and knit, meet new people!
Who:
All your favorite local yarn dyers and spinners, plus some extra crafty goodness!
Where:
Historic Savage Mill
8600 Foundry Street
Savage, MD 20763
When:
Sunday, March 21, 2010
12 PM to 5 PM
Featuring:
great crafty vendors
free lessons on knitting, crochet, spinning
door prizes
weather-permitting, a sit and spin/crochet/knit area out on the deck
They will be collecting knitted and crocheted items for local charities.
Admission is FREE!
What:
Yarn Party! Check out local yarn vendors, sit and knit, meet new people!
Who:
All your favorite local yarn dyers and spinners, plus some extra crafty goodness!
Where:
Historic Savage Mill
8600 Foundry Street
Savage, MD 20763
When:
Sunday, March 21, 2010
12 PM to 5 PM
Featuring:
great crafty vendors
free lessons on knitting, crochet, spinning
door prizes
weather-permitting, a sit and spin/crochet/knit area out on the deck
They will be collecting knitted and crocheted items for local charities.
Admission is FREE!
More Feederbrook Fun
I went to visit "Lisa and the Sheep" (Lisa's usual email signature) at Feederbrook Farm last week. I had the most awesome time.
Lisa showed me her fiber studio. Buford, the basset hound, greeted me like a long lost pal. He has a soft coat and sweet voice. He howled every time I stopped petting him. The trio of peacocks were hanging out on and around the farm tractor in the shed.
In the fenced barnyard, the sheep had spread out a thick layer of hay. They are messy eaters! Inside the barn there were two ewes close to giving birth. Maggie, my little ewe lamb, ran into the barn and was eagerly thrusting her head through a stall partition in anticipation of getting some animal crackers. Three angora goat babies were in the barn also, under the red light of a heat lamp. They are very cute and have curly hair. Lisa let me help bottle feed them. The regal face of one of the llamas peered at me over the partition and a handsome rooster posed from the top of a wooden beam.
We went back out into the barn yard and Lisa said, "Watch this!". She then added a new bale of hay to the feeder and the sheep acted like they had won the lottery! They rushed over and eagerly attacked this amazing prize with gastronomic gusto. As Lisa expected, it didn't take long for one of the girls to climb on top. Later, when I looked over the photos, I could see all of the sheep leaning toward Lisa with their noses in the air. Their expressions of interested anticipation of the hay were unmistakable!
Not only Maggie, but also little brown Clarisse, and black-faced Wonder Woman surrounded me with expectations of a treat or a pat. I think Clarisse would have been happy to have one of my coat buttons; she enthusiastically tasted all of the ones she could reach!
Lisa pointed out the sheep that were happily nibbling the clean, white snow leftover from the recent blizzard. The girls enjoyed the snow so much that they had been ignoring the large bucket of fresh water supplemented with molasses "anti-freeze".
You can see photos from my adventure here on my Flickr site.
Lisa showed me her fiber studio. Buford, the basset hound, greeted me like a long lost pal. He has a soft coat and sweet voice. He howled every time I stopped petting him. The trio of peacocks were hanging out on and around the farm tractor in the shed.
In the fenced barnyard, the sheep had spread out a thick layer of hay. They are messy eaters! Inside the barn there were two ewes close to giving birth. Maggie, my little ewe lamb, ran into the barn and was eagerly thrusting her head through a stall partition in anticipation of getting some animal crackers. Three angora goat babies were in the barn also, under the red light of a heat lamp. They are very cute and have curly hair. Lisa let me help bottle feed them. The regal face of one of the llamas peered at me over the partition and a handsome rooster posed from the top of a wooden beam.
We went back out into the barn yard and Lisa said, "Watch this!". She then added a new bale of hay to the feeder and the sheep acted like they had won the lottery! They rushed over and eagerly attacked this amazing prize with gastronomic gusto. As Lisa expected, it didn't take long for one of the girls to climb on top. Later, when I looked over the photos, I could see all of the sheep leaning toward Lisa with their noses in the air. Their expressions of interested anticipation of the hay were unmistakable!
Not only Maggie, but also little brown Clarisse, and black-faced Wonder Woman surrounded me with expectations of a treat or a pat. I think Clarisse would have been happy to have one of my coat buttons; she enthusiastically tasted all of the ones she could reach!
Lisa pointed out the sheep that were happily nibbling the clean, white snow leftover from the recent blizzard. The girls enjoyed the snow so much that they had been ignoring the large bucket of fresh water supplemented with molasses "anti-freeze".
You can see photos from my adventure here on my Flickr site.
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