Kim Williams

Today is the first day of the farm's open house for the last sale until the new year. The house smells of fresh pine, baked cookies, and yarns. We sent pounds of raw fleece to the mills to be processed, and now all we need to do is wait. Seeing what the animal's fiber has produced is always a wonderful surprise. How will it look and feel?

This year, I bought two young bucks for the Angora ladies. One is a long story that I will not write or tell here. The other buck, Rusty,  is a red male needed for the three awaiting red does. He is a beauty and can be a bit precocious. But they have spent their allotted time mating, and now we wait 145 days.  

There have been several studies that were not selected for various reasons. You find and hear them near the fence, screaming for a buck to answer the doe's distress call. I say, " Sorry, it just ain't happen'!"  The other females look up from eating and think ho-hum.

A local artist from Johnstown, PA, Kim Williams,

came to the farm to photograph our animals for her to paint later. The paintings capture the souls of the animals she paints, and if you look closely, she uses natural items on the canvas. She is a gifted artist.

https://www.kimwilliamsfineart.com/dataviewer.asp

September 9, 2023