Most of these photos relate to other blog posts I planned to write. But for now this is a synopsis of yesterday.

Astella arrived the night before along with…

Annie and Stefan. A friend is leaving her isolated foothill property and moving to town. She needed a home for her remaining large animals.

Did you know that I used to have a donkey? She came here in 2008 when she was five years old. I looked back through this blog and the one on my website and found five posts if you have time and want to see cute photos. The series will also describe why Astella will not be in the pasture with the sheep. Eventually we plan to give her a bigger space, but no time right now.

Amaryllis and Stephanie in 2012. Amaryllis in 2017. Amaryllis and her new shoes in November, 2017. Getting Amaryllis goat buddies in 2018. About Amaryllis’ life on the farm in 2019.

I tried to upload a video here, but I need a different plan. So I tried YouTube. I hope you can see this.

I won’t make this post more cumbersome by adding additional links, but do you remember reading about the pasture renovation? You can search “pasture renovation” if you want to those details. Part of the NRCS project was to spread compost. We bought compost and Dan spent the last few days spreading it as well as everything from the barn that we have composted.

This is how it looks now behind the barn. No piles!

I have given up writing blog posts in order. There should be one about the tree removal that happened this week. It was a requirement so that we wouldn’t lose our insurance, but that’s another story (and of course a blog post with photos). One advantage is that we ended up with chips. Unfortunately we didn’t get the first load because it was chipped into the truck that was already half full of chips that included oleander. We don’t want oleander leaves on a farm with livestock. The tree company dumped the next day’s load on the outside of the fence along the hedgerow we planted a year ago (also under the NRCS project and with blog posts), and Dan used our tractor to scoop them over the fence.

Yesterday I used a rake to spread those chips to better mulch this area. That load was enough for half the distance. The tree company said that they would dump more when it’s convenient.

I have also been working on more buttons and shawl pins. I finished this batch last night to have then ready for a sale where I’ll be tomorrow.