Coping with the farm

For those of you who are sheep, wool, or knitting enthusiasts…I now have a farm store! If you’ve followed this blog, you know that I’ve been raising Leicester Longwool sheep and [...]

I feel no further words are necessary…

Greetings from the farm, where a combination of spring tasks (pasture management, fruit tree spraying, spring planting, dosing sheep with concentrated garlic juice, things like that) and lots of [...]

Here on the farm, spring means fruit tree pruning, sheep shearing, planting, new pasturing…and all sorts of other things. I’ll be posting photos of these activities as they happen. [...]

January evening on the farm; my daughter and my father are fishing in the farm pond, right before sunset. (My job was to build the fire. I like fire.)

Following on our leap into sheep-and-wool-goat raising, we went to our first livestock show this weekend: the Eastern Angora & Mohair Association Fall Show at the Shenandoah Valley Fiber [...]

The frogs have found a happy place… “Actually, I’m still hungry.” New fences for goats and sheep… State Fair arts and crafts entry! Hoping for a blue ribbon.

In January 2006, I started this blog when the manuscript of the History of the Ancient World went off to my publisher. My hair was shorter, my children were younger, my office was still in a [...]

Lightning hit the house this week. The house is fine, although the strike practically knocked my third son off his chair and a flash of blue fire went by the window. Funny thing about a lightning [...]

Georgiana and Caroline have arrived to complete the new Leicester Longwool flock. And for a sheeps-eye view of the whole flock, check out my Wandering Sheep video, shot this morning.

This weekend, six of my eight-sheep “starter flock” arrived on the farm. I’ve wanted to raise sheep for YEARS. I researched the breeds; I wanted wool as a priority over meat, [...]

So I haven’t posted on my blog in a couple of weeks. And here I thought that, once the History of the Renaissance was turned in, I’d be all bloggy again. Actually, I feel weird. [...]