Friday, December 31, 2010

New blog, new year, new progress!

Happy New Year!

I don't know about you, but I have grand things planned for this year. If all goes well, by the end of August we'll have renovated the farmhouse of the historic Sannick Family Farm, and moved my family in. That will be the big change for the year - moving from our small city back to the more rural area I grew up in. But long before that, I'll be spinning a dyeing like a madwoman, filling out business paperwork, and generally doing whatever else I have to do to get my etsy store off the ground and start selling you deserving people my handspun yarns. You want to buy them, right??


I'm not stopping my plans there. I've been watching Richters, Landis Valley Museum, and Joybilee Farm for months now, wondering when I should order flax seed. This year I'm going to plant flax, harvest it, and process it into linen. Wonderful plan, isn't it? I'm wildly - probably pathologically - excited. I might even go to the flax demonstration at the Home Tool Textile Museum. I'm also - speaking of seeds - almost fainting with excitement over the possibilities for the sort of vegetable garden I could raise up at the farm, with its fertile soil, sunlight, and expansive space. It makes one giddy to think about the possibilities.

If I play my cards right, and things go smoothly over the following months, it's not unreasonable to think that I could even have my first few doelings by the end of this year. A couple of likely candidates, housed in the beginning of my goat-kingdom. Picture this barn, but with a goat-pen and four to six goats, instead of the random sheet metal:



So, happy New Year to you and yours! I hope your upcoming year is as filled with giddy, ambitious promise as mine seems to be. May 2011 - for all of us - be energetic, creative, passionate, fulfilling, happy, and a thousand times better than 2010!