From the monthly archives:

April 2009

WIP — Pierced Copper Ring">WIP — Pierced Copper Ring

21 April 2009

Progress has been made on the ring. A flat piece of cop­per was ham­mered and then cut into a cir­cle. That cir­cle was dapped into a dome shape. The the tree bit was sol­dered onto the domed bit, mak­ing a hol­low orna­ment A chunk of 12 gauge half round ster­ling wire was made into a ring […]

Tagged as: piercing, ring, soldering

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Barn Swallows are Back

21 April 2009

Each sum­mer we have sev­eral nests of barn swal­lows. Late last week I watched the first of the barn swal­lows fly across the pas­ture. This morn­ing I had the first evi­dence that house­keep­ing has started. One of the oldest/biggest nests is perched on top of the flood light over the feed room in the barn. As […]

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Shearing Day Report

21 April 2009

Today was shear­ing day. There were only 6 ani­mals so it went quickly. Here’s what the crew looked like before: Here Jason is shear­ing the first vic­tim, er Mut­ton: And here’s what they look like now:

Tagged as: alpacas, shearing, sheep

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