Catching Up Again...

Something has been wrong with the blog for a month or two.
I'm not sure why, but it kept showing a 404 error and you couldn't access it from Facebook.
I was in contact with my domain people and Blogger with no success, but it seems to have somehow fixed itself.
For some reason though it's still showing on other blog links as The Trailerparks which is my email instead of The Fat Bottom Farm.
Oh well.
A little bit of a lot has been going on around here and if you follow on Facebook you haven't missed anything and if you don't follow on Facebook you haven't missed much just enough to keep me busy and I won't go on about everything today because I don't want you to fall asleep during the boring parts and then miss out on a good part so I'll spread out the old news with the new news over the next few days.

Lambs

Our final count this year was four lambs.
One set of twins and two little ewes.
Belle had the twins and Dingle, the littlest twin was a house sheep and her brother Dangle who is a wether now because we don't need any more rams.
Polly Pancakes had a snow white ewe lamb, Clementine, who is made out of rubber bands and fireworks and tears up the pasture like her feet are on fire!
Judy had a ewe lamb, Jesse, who is the size of of a 1997 Geo Metro.
I'm not even kidding.
Her neck is the size of a tree stump.
She's huge.
Then, our biggest surprise this lambing season was when the neighbor across the road gave us his two Jacob rams, even though at the time we didn't know they were rams, we were just so happy to have them.
They haven't been shorn since before we moved here in 2006, and believe me, they needed it!

Jacobs are a heirloom breed of horned sheep that produce a beautiful spotted fleece.

Even the ewes have horns and either sex can have between two and four horns and I think even up to six!
I need to brush up on my Jacob smarts and get my hands on a ewe or two and get busy growing this flock.
You can imagine how thrilled Six is for me to have another new endeavour ;)

Arts & Crafts

Wyatt has been really busy making his jewelry and is having quite a bit of success selling his stuff which works out great for me because he can finally support his own habit!
For the longeat time I have been trying to convince him to make earrings but he would have no part of it...
Until it was his idea.
Then it suddenly became a good idea.
Whatever.
Here's a pair he made yesterday.

Check out his Etsy shop, he's pretty amazing, or maybe I just think that because I'm his mom :)

Winded Wire

I've been making soap again, mostly because my friend Shelly has opened a great new store and had space for a bar or two and some candles too.

And I kind of missed the process.

There really is nothing like the look and feel of handmade soap and knowing that you're not lathering yourself up in groddy chemicals is an added bonus too.

This is the last batch I made. 

It's for problem skin made from local honey, finely ground oats and aloe.

Non scented, it should be great for anyone who has issues with acne and eczema.

And this is what I have listed on Etsy and what Shelley has in her store

(Shelley's Shack 100 W State Street Sedro Woolley Wa)

Garden Scrub.

Orange oil and blackberry with dried orange rind for scrubbing and dried blackberry leaves for exfoliation.

And...

Kitchen Counter 

Made with vanilla espresso to get the garlic and onion stink off your hands!

And, last but not least for today...

The Neighbor

I could go on all day about him, but I won't :)

Peas.