Today marks the 2 year anniversary of my wordpress blog here.  I can’t really believe it’s already been two years!  To celebrate I’m giving away some goodies.  All you need to do is comment to enter.  There are SEVERAL prizes so everyone has a good chance of winning a little (or big) something.

I will revele the winners friday. So comment to enter

In other news I am finally getting over the plague I caught while in Minnesota, unfortunately I managed to infect the Mr.  Since I was able to recognize it almost immediately he’s been on a drug & vitimin C regiment since friday and is doing much better than I was with the virus.

This weekend Mette invited us up to the ranch for a BBQ at their ranch. When they got there they were just finishing up cleaning up some new born lambs. I couldn’t believe how amazingly cute they were!  They looked like mini black poodles & were so tiny!  Mette and her husband Tom have a small herd of Icelandic sheep among the various other critters.

 May 30th the Mr and I are heading back up to Lompoc to watch (and maybe even help) while Mette & Tom shear all the animals. I can’t wait.  Their Icelandic wool is the most amazingly soft & refined lopi I’ve ever felt. The yarns that they produce on the ranch are amazing, the softest alapcas, llamas, and wool ever. All the colors are natural but they are the best of the best for sure.

And you can’t forget the boys.

Ranch of the Oaks doesn’t only just have sheep, they have alpacas & Llamas too! This llama was the most friendly critter ever. She actually wanted to be pet which, from what I was told, is not really in their nature.

There were also dogs, cats & orstiches. I have to tell you, I have a strange afinity for rough looking farm dogs. I love how weathered they look.  Hank was no exception!

And this pup I actually wanted to steal. Mette seems to have quite a lot of dogs with the bi-color eye thing going on. I’ve never seen it before. Hank (above) is blind in one eye, but the pup below isn’t blind at all. Just blue & brown eyes.

 

I also managed to get some spinning & knitting done this weekend. I am working slowly on my forecast sweater (which they should rename the sweater of PURLING because there is very little knitting involved!) in some knit picks stashed yarn (trying to use the stash). 

And some spinning