Laura E. Weymouth

@lauraeweymouth.bsky.social

I raise children, creatures, and stories. Coming soon: Steel & Spellfire (7/22) The Castle & the Cloister (Summer 2026) The Starlight & the Flame (Summer 2027)

My ten year old: I want to get a dog I could do agility with Me, staring at our year old border collie who a trainer described as "like a Malinois but happy": And do you want to WIN at agility? Ten year old: Oh yeah, I love crushing people! Me: Have you considered...the dog sitting beside you???

A white child with brown hair sits in a green field with a smiling border collie lying beside her

He's heeeeeere!!!! Welcome to the farm, Jett! So ends kidding season 2025. This handsome guy will be wethered (castrated) and retained on the farm as a companion for a buckling I plan to bring in as a breeding prospect. If time permits, I also plan to teach him to carry a pack and pull a cart 😂

A newly born cream and black goat kid stares at the viewer while getting pets from yours truly

Most of you probably saw this on IG already, but I found a surprise waiting for me in the goat shed yesterday morning 🥰🥰🥰 Got to help dry off the newest herd member and watch her stand for the first time. Both mama and baby are doing AMAZING

A black and brown newborn goat stands in the straw with one ear sticking up and one drooping down. She is upsettingly cute A brown, black and white momma goat softly touches noses with her black and brown baby through a doorwayTwo brown, black and white female goats look down at a black and brown kid, who they are keeping careful watch overA black and brown kid goat stands in a doorway looking in

I was today years old when I learned that "brazier", as in "a dish of fire", is NOT spelled the same as "brassiere" (I THOUGHT THEY WERE HOMOGRAPHS) so now I have to go through THE CASTLE & THE CLOISTER and correct many, many instances of bras being placed on altars and set on fire

One of the rarely mentioned reasons to have a group chat as an author is that when social media platforms release new features no one asked for, you can run to your chat to have the savvier, smarter members explain them to you instead of revealing the decrepit Luddite forest witch you actually are

In case you need a break and to hear a small good thing, here are some very beautiful sheep. They're a critically endangered heritage breed called Hog Island Sheep, which only exist at living history villages and a tiny handful of private farms...

A flock of sheep graze in an autumn field under a blue sky and scattered clouds