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Posts tagged ‘Gryphon Ridge Highland Cattle’

The Blue Brick has a Ravelry group! Check it out here, and join for access to pattern sneak peeks, KALs, the latest news and, of course, a fiber’y little Blue Brick community :) Over the weekend I had the opportunity to work on more of my…

Yarn, Inspired by Ontario

August 10, 2015
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Whenever we show in Niagara-on-the-lake we get to stay at our friend Kim’s place, aka the Gryphon Ridge Highland Cattle Farm. It’s always a treat for us city mice, and I sleep far better at Kim’s then I do at home. The crickets at night…

Furbaby Love

August 7, 2015
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This past Saturday Tito and I had a booth at the Niagara-on-the-Lake farmers market. We’re there again this Saturday, and that’s our last appearance at this particular market for the year, so come down and check us out if you’re in the area! The market…

Niagara-On-The-Lake Farmers Market, and a Bit of Tourism

July 13, 2015
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The holidays won. I tried to stick to my plan to shoot nothing but tutorials, but I lost to my holiday schedule. The good news is that I can keep on sharing tutorials through the new year, which will give us all some fun stuff…

The best laid plans…

December 22, 2014
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What’s a day in Niagara on the Lake without a visit to Kim’s Critter Collection (aka Gryphon Ridge Highland Cattle)? The evening was warm and perfect. Here’s Eddie munching away. I love the light in this shot. Cow trundling towards me… Closer… Closer! Aaaand someone…

Baby Cows and the Attempted Theft of the Mark III

June 24, 2014
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For Mother’s Day I wove two huge scarves (pics of the second one to come later) and took mom and dad up to Gryphon Highland Cattle Farm for the day to meet Kim and spend some time with her critter collection. Here’s mom showing off…

Mothers Day Farm Fest

May 12, 2014
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We treated ourselves to a lovely selection of Kim’s jams and jellies (lemon blueberry lychee, strawberry kiwi, apple mango chutney…mmm!) A few bottles of wine from Frogpond Farm. Of course Tito was nice enough to carry it all :) Kim and I are clearly 3…

Another day on the farm

June 13, 2013
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The pig is a shy little rescue pot belly pig named Wilbur. The cow is an uncharacteristically unfriendly highland cow named Utopia who insists on looking at me like I owe her 20 bucks. They’re in love.  

Love knows no, uh, bounds.

June 10, 2013
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I’m one of those people that can only eat meat by never thinking too hard about where my food is coming from. So, when the abattoir truck changed it’s morning route and started going by my home I was pretty distressed. In this case it’s…

Furry Cows, sustainable eating and the cutest things I’ve seen since baby otters.

November 12, 2012
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