Springing Forward

Changed the clocks weeks ago, but feel like I’ve finally turned the corner on spring things over the last few days.

Finished up shearing! All three girls are now sporting their pixie cuts, and I have fleeces to wash. 🙂 Here are Daphne and Fiona using the tractor mower deck as playground equipment.

With The Man’s help, I was also able to extend Dottie’s private accommodations in the pasture to include some fresh grass. I’m hoping to be able to reestablish grass in those heavily worn areas on either side of the previous fenceline now that they’ll get less traffic.

In the hoophouse, I’ve been busy managing seedlings-

Things are pretty well on track with these guys, but I think that my first attempt at getting carrots started outside might have failed. So will probably be taking another crack at that soon. Not sure if it’s birds eating the seed, or disruption of the seedbed by voles, but something is up. Maybe a floating row cover would help my chances….

I also got quite a bit of spinning done this week- hopefully these skeins will be in the ballpark weight-wise for use in the Bea cardigan project. Will get the yds/oz specs once they are washed and dried.

The garter stitch fabric is so lovely and squishy, and I am enjoying just knitting without having to think much about shaping and charts and such. I’m about to the underarm on the back piece, and so will soon be picking up stitches for the front bits. Then we’ll start to see the how the garment comes together.

Will sign off with a couple little things that made me happy this week. Tiny breba figs on the Desert King fig tree

And tiny violets in the lawn

Brave, hardy little violets.