Maggie's first snow

Maggie FREAKED when she went outside this morning. It was her first snow. She growled at the snow, bit the snow and ended up licking as much of it as she could. After the initial I'm afraid she has been asking to go outside nearly all day. She has worn a path from running around in the snow. She sticks her whole head into the snow and barks at it. It is hysterical!

Maggie and Max Today

Here are Maggie and Max today. They love each other and are best pals. They get into all kinds of fun together and you guessed it trouble together. Max is a gorgeous and well trained chocolate lab and Maggie is an independent and free spirit black Airedale. Below is the beautiful Chilean Silky.
Here is our new male Little Tex with Carly Simon in the front.
Our newest arrival is Chocolate Express a little male cria out of Bavarian Chocolate.
Maggie at the end of her day.

WINE TIME

We are harvesting in the Bluff Country. Hundreds of pounds of our wine grapes are ready to be made into all the wines that we are getting known for. The three 7 gallon buckets in this picture will make 5 gallons of a white wine that if you play your cards right you may be lucky enough to enjoy with me next year. We destem, crush and press the wine grapes and put it into a primary fermentor and the process of making wine begins. Aren't they just beautiful?

A STAR is born!

Carly Simon DOB 09/03/07 a small female cria out of our favorites Bolivian Showtyme Xpress x Bolivian Simonetta. This full Bolivian female is snuggling with Simonetta minutes after she birthed. What a beautiful sight!

Does this count?!

Hello, it's me Maggie. Does this count as NOT being allowed on the bed? I don't think it should count but thought I'd ask everyone else. I mean my head isn't really on the pillow and my eyes are open so it's not like I'm sleeping or anything. No one else in this bed seems to think I'm on the bed so what's the big deal?

Did I mention I have some FIBER?!

Saturday was a wonderful day! Jim and I traveled over to Carothers Country Mill, through Winona, through Goodview and over to Minnesota City. If you haven't made time to visit the mill try to do so...it is so worth it! Lynda suggested I make my blending options so I began laying out the washed bags of fiber; llama, shetland, mohair groupings that I've raised! I have way more than I'm showing here something like 150 #'s!!!!! OMG everyone. I hope you all need fiber for spinning and knitting. The fiber is gorgeous and we have over 8#'s of an unbelievably soft to the touch llama roving from a red/white shearing. I can't stand it it is all so beautiful and soft to the feel. Lynda has two employees that I managed to picture and put on this blog posting. Phoebe is 3#'s and prefers to be held and then there is the 5 month watch kitten of the mill. Both are hysterical and so much fun to play with and watch. We finished our rainy day by visiting the Lark Toy Factory which was AMAZING! It is in Kellogg, MN. I could have spent all day there. We drove back to Blackhammer, MN without incident and as the day progressed learned of all the tragedy to strike the very towns and highways we had just traveled across. Lynda is safe and so are we.

Little Cutie!

Meet Black Silk, a full Bolivian tiny reverse appy female. She is out of my prized Acobamba x Andina. I call her a black silky, then took it a step further and named her BLACK SILK

My Family Vacation

Our family vacation was last week. Dave, Jim and I spent a wonderful week at our farm! Working, playing and vacationing. We discovered Maggie particularly loved fishing. As with all great vacations and time together the ending was bitter sweet. We had to go back to work!

Names for so many!!!

Meet Zarita a full Argentine female cria. Then it's gorgeous red and gray Sundot a male full South American boy, with white legged and silky black Starrtyme a small female. Meet Blake with Jim overlooking the valley on our farm finished with Maggie...exhausted after playing with her new cousin a chocolate lab puppy named Max. Maggie says, "I thought this was supposed to be about me. Not those new llama cria!"