Updates from Dream Come True Farm

Well its been a long wait for spring to arrive, but it finally came and we are well into all spring chores and projects here on the farm. Some of you know I had suffered with a bad back and almost conceded to back surgery. Thankfully I seem to have won the fight and my back is 75% better and getting better everyday!
So I have been back into the wool room doing some long awaited work. Recently I have been on a roll carding my own batts for spinning into yarn. Im making some great exotic blends. Alpaca, sheep, silk, angora bunny, angeline, angora goat locks and llama may be found in these batts. Loaded with color, texture and character I'm offering through my Etsy shop or if you see something here Id be more then happy to ship it out to you.My spinning has been inbetween all the carding and knitting that I have been doing, but those skeins are being completed and available in the farm shop.
The knitting I have done has been projects that I had statrted and never completed so you know how good that feels to have now completed all of them!Luke has put his time in on the farm as well, feeding the animals in the morning when he is here, driving his tractor with the weeds I pull from the garden to dump them in the compost pile.

My gardens are doing quite well especially with the rain we recently had for 8 days in a row! Mike and I have been married 35 years so for our anniversary we went away for a night and then we worked on the garden, (well Mike did because of my back) and we pulled out, moved around and added a bunch of new plants! I'm so happy with the out come.
Mike replaced all the boards on the fromt porch, next it will all be painted and spruced up. We love sitting on the front porch on the log cabin in the easly evenings, its like being in a tree house.
So below Im sharing A roll of pictures, quite a few from the spring and what I have been doing here on the farm. I hope you enjoy our ventures on the farm.
The sheep, the goats, llamas and ponies are all doing quite well, enjoying the spring abd spending most of their time outside in the barnyard.
So as it usually is, all is well here at Dream Come True Farm and I'm grateful for that. Enjoy the rest of your spring, summer is just around the corner!























Lots of projects completed, ahhhh what a good feeling.

Gardens are blazing with the color of green, rich now with some color beginning to bud.
I hope your spring has sprung with life and color in all aspects of your life!

Check back we'll update in a few weeks or sooner.

Visit my Etsy shop for new items being added all the time. www.Pamsfiber.Etsymcom
Enjoying life on the farm!
See you all in a few weeks! Pam

A Walk Thorugh Shearing Day!

Shearing Day has come and gone. The day a Shepherd waits for all year long. It was a rainy day this past Saturday but we managed to keep nice and dry in the barn while shearing, then we moved to the front porch to skirt (clean) the fleeces getting them ready them to be washed and carded at the mill.
The shearers arrived at 9am and the activity began immediately. They oiled the blades stepped into their overalls and the fun began. Mike and Rick had the job of sending in the sheep which were divided from the shearing area by a gate. 2 by 2 they entered to be shorn, returning back to the holding area to stay warm and dry after they suddenly became naked. Ashly had the job of cleaning up the mats in between each sheep, removing any undesired wool that had fallen. Then Ashly and I rolled up the freshly shorn fleece and packed it into a bag. Each fleece is kept in its own bag. The shearing went very smooth. After the sheep were done being shorn we injected them with their yearly injection and wormed them. They seemed happy when all was done. I bedded the barn with lots of fresh clean straw and we sent inside for a big breakfast. We served egg and veggie casserole and homemande coffee cake and a big cup of coffee for each! Now the sheep were happy and content, the shearers were happy and content and so were we. We said our good-byes to the sheep shearers and then moved all the wool bags to the front porch where Mike had already set the skirting table up so we can clean each fleece. The table is a frame with wire on it so that all the small cuts of wool and hay that may be in the fleece can fall to the ground. We all went through each fleece taking out the nasty parts, form the neck and belly area. You also don't want the leg wool. After we sorted each fleece it was rolled up and bagged, ready for the next step. Our job, done. Untill its cleaned and ready for spinning. Then my FUN begins for the year!
That was not the end of my day. A Birthday party arranged by Ashly and Rick!!! Later that day our neighbor came by along with my family Brooke Massimo and Luke for a wonderful dinder that Rick and Ashly prepared at home, cooked here and served us! What a day I had. Couldnt ask for a better day. Our good friends came by to help us shear, skirt and pack of fleeces and then celebrated my Birthday with us!! Another wonderful day here on Dream Come True Farm! Iv'e said befor but it needs to be said again Life is good here on the farm! I hope the pics below show you exactly what a day of shearing is like. Enjoy your week!

We welcome another season here on the farm

I think I'm right in saying that Spring is defiantly here! I saw the male blue bird building a nest for the Mrs. in the same bird house as he did last year! I see the Mrs fly in and out to check on the progress and so far I guess she's happy. To me that wes a sure sign of Spring. This week I really cleaned up, little by little each day all the gardens. There is so many herbs and things peeking up through the earth, another sure sign of Spring. The bird house pictured is where the Blue Bird family resides, this morning I opened the kitchen window to enjoy some of that spring air and I heard the song of the blue bird. How beautiful it was.
The animals all seem to be so happy that all that cold white stuff is gone from the ground for a good long while and the good old days of laying outside the barn door all night chewing cud, enjoying the night air and watching the stars are back! Breakfast time is long and relaxed. I feed, we visit, I sit, they wonder what I'm up to and its all so good. The sheep will be shorn in 2 days, another sign of spring. The brightly painted shed pictured is my Secret Life of Bee's garden shed and quiet place to sit, which is fenced off right in the middle of the paddocks, a variety of mints grow wild in the area. Its my fun place, shhhhh dont tell anyone where I hide. There's no place like home" I enjoy my life here.
Seasons come and seasons go and no matter what season it is, life is good here at Dream Come True Farm
I hope Spring brings much happiness and renewed life to your homestead. Enjoy.

Shearing day is almost here!

Well its about 2 weeks away until these woollies get sheered! I thought I'd post a few pics of some of them in full wool and then show you how much smaller these guys will look after shearing. Shearing is April 23rd. We have sheep shearers that come to do the job. It should take only a couple of hours. I then skirt (clean) any chaff, belly and leg wool out. Then its all bagged up and sent to a mill for cleaning and to be put into roving form spinning. This will take about 3 months. When its shipped back the best part begins, spinning dyeing and planning projects. The coats on the sheep are to help keep the wool clean and from being weathered. There will be no chaff in the covered parts or no sun bleached tips. All our sheep wear coats so that we may produce the best wool possible. I'll post pics of shearing day so that you can see the entire process.





These guys will be sheered just in time for those warm days that are just around the corner. A newly sheered sheep is a happy sheep and a happy Shepherd will be me, with all that new fiber!