angora goats

Sasha and Missy

Missy and Sasha

I went to North Carolina this past Sunday to pick up 3 angora does. Missy and Sasha are 2 small yearlings. I also purchased a 3 year old doe(whom I named Maddyson, Maddy for short) for breeding with my nigerian dwarf buck. I will get a pic of Maddy up soon. They are 3 sweet girls.

our first snow this year

Our first snow this year was this past Sunday, It hung around for a couple of days.

Today it will be in the 70's. I will finish the new fence I started putting up before our beautiful snow fall. Got to get it done today, because I'm getting 3 angora goats tomorrow.

Last night I tried to get a picture of a rooster going to roost at sunset, I didn't get much of the sunset but I got a nice silhouette of the rooster in the tree:

the rustic rooster farm

Farm living is the life for me! I love being outdoors. I love gathering fresh eggs. I love fresh vegetables that I grow organic. I love being able to open a jar of canned garden goodies and know where they came from, how they were grown, and knowing that it reduces my carbon foot print on the earth.

wool preparation

I love every thing about fiber. I love the animals. I especially love preparing the wool for spinning. This is a picture of merino and angora rolags(behind bowl of angora fiber), the merino(on the right) was dyed with natural plant dye from the farm. I blended the merino with the angora(natural fawn)on my hand cards(cotton hand cards). I spun a 2 ply yarn with it. It is so soft. I will take a picture of it to post.

vegan

You might wonder why I have a vegan blog on my blog list, since I obviously raise chickens and dairy goats.

I am a vegatarian, I am not a vegan. I added a link to a vegan site because my daughter is trying to be vegan. I eat eggs and dairy, but I also like to try vegan recipes(alot of them are great vegatarian recipes).

angora goats

I will be adding 3 angora goats to my farm soon. I am getting 2 small does that I will keep for their fiber, they are too small to breed. I am also getting 1 doe that is hopefully bred. I will also breed her to my nigerian dwarf buck goat in the future. I will drive up to North Carolina to get my angoras the end of this month. I couldn't find any in South Carolina. My daughter and grandaughter will go with me, they love the North Carolina mountains.

nigerian dwarf goat

This is Mocha, my blue eyed Nigerian dwarf goat. She was bottle fed and is a real sweetheart. She has 4 daughters. I am keeping all of my girls. I hope to get an angora goat(buck) this spring to breed with all the girls to produce fiber goats that will still produce good goat milk.

oyster mushroom stir fry

I picked some small oyster mushroom yesterday and made this.
The mushrooms were about 2-3 inches across. I used a half of a cup of cleaned sliced mushrooms. I sauteed them in 1 tbsp. of butter. I then added a half of a cup of leftover brown rice, pushed all this to the side and scrambled an egg in 1 tbsp. of butter and mixed it all together. At first the mushrooms were a little strong for my taste, but then I added a tbsp. of soy sauce, which balanced it out. I would make this again. In a few days I think I will make an oyster mushroom cream sauce and top some pasta with it.