Mom has a variety of very interesting friends. Today I walked along Main Street in Emo and dropped in at Carol Inkster's craft store. Her shelves are filled with handcrafted projects by artisans in the Rainy River District: pottery, jewellery, knitting, sewing, canned jellies, jams, and preserves.
Carol herself runs a hobby farm just two miles from my home. Her menagerie includes llamas, goats, miniature horses, rabbits, potbellied pigs, ducks, chickens, sheep, turkeys, and I'm sure others I'm not aware of. While running an almost entirely self-sustaining farm, Carol shears her llamas, goats, sheep and rabbits, washes, dyes, cards, spins, weaves and knits their wool, and sells the articles of clothing she creates. She also milks her goats, churns butter and cures cheese. Goats' milk is also a key ingredient in her unique line of skin care products and soaps. Today I purchased three bars of Willowtree soaps: Goat Milk 'N Cinnamon, Goat Milk 'N Flax, and Goat Milk 'N Oatmeal. At $3.00/bar, this soap is a bargain, as on average, one bar will last me for 6 months. (And I do wash!)
Goal for this week? Take Carol up on her offer to learn to milk a goat.
1 comment:
good luck with that. sounds....kef :)
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