What's New on the Web Site and on the Farm

Alex's 2009 Pups at 10 weeks. Can you pick out Willy?

The new BLOG

This is new! To read about the latest Happenings on the farm and view some photos please visit the new Blog. If you are new to blogs don't worry, so was I. It's easy. Just click on the link to get there. You can read and/or leave comments in each section and by clicking on a picture.    Cormo Blog Link

Events

Note date change! Fleeces, Food & Fun at Retzlaff Winery - Sat. June 4, 2011 canceled ---Due to rain moved to Sat. June 18, 2011, Livermore, CA 10:00 AM- 4:00 PM  This event is lots of fun, beautiful setting, great food at the pot luck, nice raffle prizes. Retzlaff Winery and Directions

Annual Spinner's Day at the Farm  - Sat. June 11, 2011, Come spin by the Russian River 10AM - 4 PM  Always a great event, lovely sitting under the trees in the vineyard. See all the info including a map in the Event Flier only the date is wrong

Fleece Judging Monterey County Fair - Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011 - - A relaxing day of learning and enjoy a pot-luck lunch  Monterey County Fair

Handcrafted Judging Monterey County Fair - Sunday, Aug. 21, 2011 - - Lots of classes to enter and good prize money! Entries limited to certain counties but anyone can enter items made from fleeces purchased at the fleece auction.  Monterey County Fair

Fleece Auction Monterey County Fair - Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5, 2011 12:30  Monterey County Fair

Lambtown,  Dixon, CA October 1, 2011  -  A nice event that seems to get bigger and better each year.  Lambtown -  Dixon, CA

Stitches West - Feb. 24 - 27, 2011 Santa Clara, CA. Some Cormo yarn will be on consignment to Linda Partsch in the "Faerie Mountain Fibers" booth. -- It sure was fun! Hope I can go again next year.

Shearing 2011 Fleeces

The 2011 shearing is completed. The fleeces are very nice this year and we are in the process of preparing them for sale and to get listed on the fleece page. Check the blog for shearing day pictures. You may see some of your friends. We had fun!  Would you like to come to a shearing day in 2012? Contact us.

Wool Show Results

Monterey County Fair Wool Show and Fleece Auction

White fleeces

Grand Champion, Champion All Breeds, First place Cormo Ram - Chief

Champion Market, First place Fine Market - Diamond

Colored fleeces

Reserve Champion of all Colored Fleeces, Reserve Champion Solid not Black, Second place Fine Solid not Black - #850

Champion Variegated, First place Fine Variegated - Hour

Second place Solid Black - Raven

Lambing 2011

Ninety two lambs were born on the farm this year, the same number as last year! How did we do that?   Most are ACSA registered Cormos and there are also beautiful colored Cormo crossbreds.  Most are for sale and would make great additions to a  handspinner's or farm flock and would do well on the range too. Check the blog for lamb photos Cormo Blog Link and if you just can't get enough lamb pictures: Click to see 2010 lamb photos

Fleeces 2010 Sold Out -

The colored Cormo crossbred fleeces sold out in a day but the white Cormo fleeces have not been listed yet. They are still being re-skirted re-weighed and locks scanned for the web page.

We sheared 4 days in Feb. and the wool shop is filled with beautiful white Cormo and colored Cormo cross bred fleeces. We didn't get to some of the hoggets so there will be another shearing day scheduled I hope in May.   They should be really nice and longer staple than my usual hogget fleeces.

We are still lambing and busy taking care of the critters. They always come first. The fleeces are sitting in the shop airing and waiting to be skirted, and prepared for sale. The fleeces are expected to be ready for sale in late April and May. The natural colored fleeces are prepared first then the white fleeces. We don't take reservations for individual fleeces. Email newsletters containing information on fleeces and other products are sent to previous customers and subscribers.  Sales are opened to customers before the general public and fleeces are sold by time email or phone order is received.

A Shearing Day in Feb.

I thought this picture was nice because it showed so many things. This was taken on a shearing day in Feb. 2009.  Holly is wearing a sweater knit with the old batch of the 3 ply Cormo yarn. Last year she found us on the internet. Her mother offered to knit her a sweater for her birthday and she wanted to use a special yarn that she could treasure for years. She tried out 1 skein of different types to see which she wanted to use for this project. These are city folks but last year she brought some of her family and they worked all day on shearing day and she bought the yarn for the sweater. What an awesome surprise! This year they came back for another day with the sheep and she was wearing this beautiful sweater. That is Holly’s husband petting Alex, the livestock guardian dog.

It's Lambing Time 2009

Since we are so low in rain this year and I’ve been too busy to keep the grass mowed in the yard I decided to sacrifice the roses and stretch my feed by letting the small group of the most pregnant sheep graze in the house yard. The white ewe just had this lamb. She just cleaned it up, let it have it’s first suck and they both are taking a needed rest. I can’t remember her name right now but she is young and this is her first lamb. The colored ewe hasn’t delivered yet. She is an older ewe Dinah and followed the young mother around all afternoon staying near by to lend support. A couple of hours later Dinah was off grazing with the rest of the flock again. I just couldn’t resist grabbing the camera when I saw them laying under the tree in full bloom. It reminds me how blessed I am.

Surprise It's Twins!