I'm also spinning up my cashmere from last year's harvest. I was trimming goat hooves a couple of days ago, and noticed they are starting to release their fleece already. Time to start combing! I was going to seriously downsize the herd this year, but after seeing how nice the cashmere is looking on most of them, now I'm having second thoughts..... There are 14 pregnant does out there all together. Celeste got bred yesterday, so she's going to have the last babies in June. The first week in April is when the majority of them are going to pop out. A fun time! It's always exciting to see what comes out. :-)
It's snowing again today. We are supposed to get 2 to 4 inches. We have about 10 inches on the ground right now, so a couple more won't be too bad. The road coming up here is looking the best it ever has. It's plowed nice and wide with plenty of turn-outs, so even if we get a lot of snow, we should be able to get up and down it with no problem the rest of the winter. Usually we end up with a narrow tunnel the last mile and a half by spring. The snow line is about that far down the road, so it's always deeper up at this end, and the road is narrower to begin with. This year it shouldn't get bad at all. Yay!!!
Well, back to the spinning wheel. It's a good day to be inside!
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