life... on the farm: working ahead

Thursday, February 23, 2012

working ahead

Last week we had a heath scare with one of our kids, which resulted in my spending some time in the ER. Funny how I was loading him up in the car and packing stuff up for us to go, I also grabbed some knitting (my stash bag). No sense sitting there with nothing to do.

Thankfully he is fine (it ended up being a stomach bug, but based on his history we totally missed the signs of this common ailment).

While there I knit up the ear flaps, starting another hat:

I plan for this to be a stripey hat. I can use up a lot of my stash, but more so, I think the different tones of brown and fawn will look really neat together.

I am putting the rest of this knitting on hold, while I focus on spinning yarn. I will pick it up again when we head out to an alpaca show - I can't wait!!

3 comments:

Linda said...: After spending over 12 hours in ER with my younger son last fall and NO knitting, I started keeping a pair of socks in progress on the backseat of car. I would have been less stressed, plus probably half a sock done.; February 23, 2012 at 9:53 PM
WonderWhyGal said...: I didn't learn how to knit until the last year of my Dad's life. Growing up with him sick, I would be a much "Saner" person, if I had knitted back in the day. That being said, I used to cross stitch in the waiting rooms. Thank goodness for knitting and I hope everyone is doing well in your house now.; February 24, 2012 at 6:26 AM
oak haven alpacas said...: Thanks ladies :)

Yeah, knitting sure does help the time pass in a calm fashion.

Andrea ~ I used to do cross stitch too, but man, I must be getting old because I am sure my eyes could not follow one of those patterns now. Thankfully much of knitting is done by feel rather than sight (at least how I do it LOL).; February 24, 2012 at 9:48 AM

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The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.