Wild Goat Women at the Michigan Fiber Festival

Our Big WGW Adventure to the Michigan Fiber Festival and back home continues!

We started our journey from Hillsboro, Oregon on Saturday morning. We spent the night in Boise, Idaho, then Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Gothenburg, Nebraska. We drove straight through Iowa, spent the night in Rock Island, Illinois, and drove straight through Indiana. We spent the night in Riverside, Michigan then on to Allegan, Michigan!

What a festival! We had our 1st sanctioned Pygora show here at the Michigan Fiber Festival! Aaron Esterline was the judge. There were 8 exhibitors and about 30 Pygora goats at the show. A fun time was had by all!

There were 2 Pygora fiber spinning classes being taught by Patsy Zawistoski and each class was filled up with a waiting list. There were several vendors offering beautiful Pygora fibers in both natural and dyed colors. Our Lavender Pygora goat's milk soap was a big hit too!

We headed out of Allegan, Michigan Sunday, 8/22. We spent our first night in Ludington, Michigan. The next day we boarded a ferry, the USS Badger, along with our motorhome and headed across Lake Michigan. We thought this was a good way to avoid the Chicago traffic. It was a real adventure. It took about 4 hours to cross the lake into Wisconsin.

We then headed to Hayward, Minnesota and spent the night at a KOA campground in the middle of a corn field. A little scary at dusk if you read the book or saw the movie, "Children of the Corn".

We are now in Rapid City, South Dakota where we will be spending 2 days so we can see Mt. Rushmore, the bad lands, crazy horse and Wall drug. Then it's off to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. More later!

We have been busy preparing for our big Northern delivery trip the first part of September. The trailer is full and the kids are in the barn being prepped for the big day!

Our Southern delivery trip is planned for October. We are filling up fast with just a few spaces still available.

Thanks for visiting our Pygora website!

Lisa

WATCH OUT WORLD, WILD GOAT WOMEN ON THE LOOSE!

Our Big WGW Adventure to the Michigan Fiber Festival has begun!  Right now I'm sitting in a 34' motor home typing this update as we are rolling down the road.  We just made it through Chicago, yeah! 

We started our journey from Hillsboro, Oregon on Saturday morning.  We spent the night in Boise, Idaho, then Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Gothenburg, Nebraska.  We drove straight through Iowa, spent the night in Rock Island, Illinois, and drove straight through Indiana.  We will be spending the night in Riverside, Michigan.  Then on to Allegan, Michigan!  Watch out, the Wild Goat Women will be arriving soon!

We are really looking forward to attending the Michigan Fiber Festival.  My friend Julie and I will be helping out at the Pygora goat show while Susan and Terry from Rainbow Yarns NW will have a  Pygora fiber vendor booth in the Delano barn.   They will have beautiful Pygora roving's, cloud's and yarn's available.    Our Lavender Pygora goat's milk soap will be available at their booth too!   Come check them out.

Our long awaited Pygora goat's milk soap is now available!   All the milk in our soap was supplied by our Pygora Does here at Hawks Mtn Ranch.   Each bar of soap was handcrafted by Sarah Carreon, our long time friend and helper on the farm.  

We chose to use Lavender essential oils in our soap for it's calm and relaxing effects after a hard days work on the ranch. 

Click HERE for more information about our soap and how to order.

We have been busy preparing for our big Northern delivery trip the first part of September.  The trailer is full and the kids are in the barn being prepped for the big day!  

Our Southern delivery trip is planned for October.   We are filling up fast with just a few spaces still available.  

Thanks for visiting our Pygora website!

Lisa

Goodbye Old Girl

Torrey Pine 1994-2010

Torrey Pine went quietly in her sleep on Sunday, August 15th.  She was 16 1/2 years old.  My Sweet Torrey Pine will always be in my heart.  Goodbye dear friend.