November

 We got the lower triangle pasture all done.  Now all we have to do it cut up all the poles into firewood and stack it out there to dry for a couple of years and we will be set.  Now we just have the area behind the goat pens to do.

Monday will be a day of burning, the weather sounds like a perfect day for it.  Then we have a winter storm watch out for Tuesday for snow and blowing snow.  We won't be able to get all the piles done tomorrow, there are too many, but a lot of them will get done.  We will cover the remaining ones with tarps so they don't get covered in snow, then burn those after the storm.
  Yesterday Rocky got his nuts cut off, so he's in the house recovering.  Tomorrow he gets to go back outside.  For never being in the house before, he's behaving quite nicely.  He weighs 102 pounds!  Not a small dog.  He barely fits in here.  One thing about his size, it got him right in and out at the clinic.  They didn't have a cage big enough for him to fit in, so they operated right away.  He wasn't quite awake yet when I got back there to pick him up, so a couple of the guys carried him out to the truck on a blanket and he rode home mostly zonked out.  He was still pretty groggy when we got home, but he could walk okay, so we slowly made it up and into the house, where he laid down and slowly woke up entirely.  Today he's pretty much back to normal.     Tomorrow he will spend most of the day outside and in the porch where it's cooler, then back outside he goes.  He's missing his goats and is getting pretty antsy in here.  I'll put him in the isolation pen which is beside the main pen so he can be next to his goats and see what's happening without being able to play just yet.  He's supposed to stay quiet for 7 days.  I think he will heal up faster than that.  Cloud healed up faster, and hers was a major surgery, his was pretty much external.
  I have opened up a new on-line store on the Montana Marketplace website.  It showcases Montana artists and craftsmen.  The website is/https://www.montanasmarketplace.com/store/pine-needle-farm-cashmeres/  That will get you to my store.  I'm adding things to it slowly but surely, as I get them made.  I am almost looking forward to snow on the ground, I'll be able to devote my time to fibery things instead of getting things done outside.  It sounds like tomorrow is the last day before the ground turns white anyway.
  We had a serious wind storm on Tuesday and Tuesday night.  Luckily nothing got damaged, or blew away.  A couple of the roofs on goat houses blew off, but those were easily fixed.  No trees of any size came down, and everything survived just fine.  Solar poser is a good thing!  There were a lot of power outages in the area, but we were well lit. :-)
  Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!