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Happy Holidays from all of us here at the Foxloft!

Come meet the burrowing owls, now LIVE on Twitch!

If you miss it today, you can follow us @TheFoxloft to be notified when we're streaming; we will be live with various education ambassador birds and the farm flock (emus, peafowl, chickens, turkeys, etc.) regularly.

Friday was another hot day, but at least had no fire evacuations. I had some time after work to get Tiabeanie to the dog park. She missed it on Thursday due to...well the fire alerts. This however is the park that was only a street over from that evac route, and most people seemed to still be avoiding it (or the heat) so there were no other dogs there during a time when there usually would have been. She mostly spent her pent up energy enjoying different patches of shade.

Saturday morning felt like a full day all on its own considering the amount of laundry and food prep I did to get the house ready for a visit from my aunt and uncle. After a nap and their arrival, the rest of the day was much more relaxed.

Plus! Andrew got the mail and in it was some pins I had kickstarted from @foxloft I LOVE these and I'm so excited to now have a female kestrel pin to match the male from the previous set <3

Sunday was a baby shower (and the reason relatives were in town)! Got to see a lot of folks I haven't seen in years and made the mother-to-be cry with my gift to her (yay?); an illustrated copy of Sara Kay's poem "B" about mothers and daughters. I'm glad it was outside, and also that outside wasn't terribly hot, because I was able to bring Tiabeanie and she had a good time getting attention from humans and giving probably too much attention to the ground squirrels at the park.

I’ve been MIA for awhile and here is part of why :)

Meet Iroh, Mai, and Toph - three Tibetan yak who just arrived at our farm!

They are our first hoofstock, and we plan to slowly expand the herd (eventually raising them for meat, milk, and fiber - though these guys will just be pets/breeders as we get established).

The last few months have been a whirlwind of chaos around here (moving, travel, getting old house ready to sell, other things…) - once things settle down over the next month or two I should be able to get back to a somewhat normal schedule.