From snow to good fall weather again, at least till Friday night. Then it's back to rain and snow.  Got a few more garden clean up things to do, then the ground can freeze so the goats aren't walking in muck.  It's actually just a small area of their pen that's mucky, it just happens to be in front of the feeder barn where I have to walk and pull the wheelbarrow through.  I did get it cleaned up a bit, at least the muck is gone in a good-sized trail so we can all go through that area now.  It was only about 3" thick, but it's pure yuk, as any of you know that have livestock on flat ground.  You'd think living on the side of a mountain that wouldn't be an issue, but any little flat spot gathers water. 

We are slowly but surely improving things around here.  Now we are building a shed to put the two atv trailers, plow, grader, wagon, woodchipper and atv in, along with anything that comes along. This will also use up a lot of the metal siding we have around.  A win-win all the way around.  The roof is on, finally at a steep enough angle that the snow will slide off.  I still don't know why all of our roofs are almost flat.  Living in snow country that isn't a good idea.  Last year we did get an electric mini snowblower to use to get the snow off the roofs.  It actually works pretty good! Sure beats shoveling it all off. 

The goats are growing their cashmere nicely.  It's interesting, none of the does are coming into heat. Usually by now, they all have had at least one cycle.  Maybe they listened to me when I told them no babies this year. I did sell the cashmere buck I had.  I still have the dairy buck though, and he's in a pen right beside the cashmeres. Last year all the does were going around him when they came in heat, ignoring the cashmere guy. This year no activity at all.  The only goats I want to get bred this year are the two dairy girls. They aren't showing any signs either.  All the shifting energies must be affecting them, too.  

I got a new-to-me floor loom last Friday!  It's a cherry Norwood 4 harness. I ordered a new 40" reed for it, so when that comes next week, I will get things going on it.  I am going to use it to weave my cashmere on.  I'm always scared to use my big Leclerc Nilus floor loom because it just seems too big and heavy to use on somewhat delicate cashmere. I've always used my rigid heddle looms to weave the cashmere scarves and shawls I've made. A new adventure awaits! :-)  I will post pictures of the things I weave on it.  I still haven't finished the project on the table loom. I do see the end of the warp coming up on the next rotation of the back beam.  Almost there!

I'm spinning a skein of cashmere that I dehaired.  Almost done with the fiber I got back from the mill a couple of years ago.  Then I have going on 5 years of raw fleece to deal with.  I will have enough cashmere to keep me busy for a few years anyway.  I also like weaving cotton and cottolin  kitchen towels, so I have a good collection of those.  One of these days I will put some in my Shop for sale, maybe someone will want one, who knows.  

Well, I think that's all that's going on around here for now.  I got a new phone and I'm still figuring it all out.  I think I got it down.  Except, the Kindle app has none of the 30 some books I have on there!  I can't find them on the Amazon account or anywhere.  Good thing I have them on my actual Kindle. It would be nice to be able to get them back since I did pay for them.  I read the help section, the questions and feedback section, and I didn't see any information on how to get them back.  Just new books that don't download.  Maybe that's a sign to go back to buying the real books printed on paper instead of the digital ones. Who knows.  That's it for now.  Hope you all are having a great day!