There is a lot of new and exciting things that are happening at our farm! We are waiting for the arrival this fall, of some new alpacas that we have been blessed with! We will be getting 3 bred female alpacas and 1 award winning male! They are beautiful and we are so happy! God has blessed us with having a very special person in our life that has helped make this possible. She is being so generous! We will have more info on this at a later date.
My daughter, Sarah, has joined us full time now. She is so creative and I feel so blessed to have her beside me in everything we do with our farms endeavors. She has been helping us get work done in our barn. We have lots to do to get ready for the addition to our herd. It has been so nice since the weather turned cooler and we have gotten a lot done, but still have lots more to do. We have been trying to find someone with an old caved in barn to get some wood to repair our barn. The east end needs a lot of repair and winter will be here before you know it! It has needed repair for a long time. Just never got it done. We have always just used the south side of our barn for our alpacas. It is a very large barn with lots of room to expand if it was repaired.
Sarah has been needle felting things for fall. She has been making lots of pumpkins, ghosts, and spiders, along with her brooches and little animals. She has also been making sheets of different colored felt, and trying her hand at making some felted hats!
I joined the Spinners and Weavers Guild of Columbia, MO recently and just picked up a spinning wheel so I can practice my spinning. I've gotten a little rusty since Fiber U. I plan to take some refresher courses with my teacher from this summer. We really need yarn! We have so much of this beautiful fiber! It is really time consuming when everything is done by hand.
We will have a booth at Lakeside Nature Center's "Picnic on the Prairie", Sunday, September 11th, from 12pm-6pm. Lakeside Nature Center is located on Gregory Blvd. in Kansas City, MO right by the Kansas City Zoo. I volunteer for them. I use to rehabilitate baby wildlife. Something I LOVED to do and miss very much! Since I had my youngest son, I still volunteer by doing phone duty a few months each year. Life gets busy, and though I would love to rehab again someday, I am just too busy with the farm at this time. They have been nice enough to ask us to come to this event. We are very thankful and excited to be a part of it. We will have all of Sarah's fiber art on display and for sale, along with raw and hand carded fiber available for sale. I think it will be a fun filled day and hope to see you there!
Lara Goins
