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This weekend I hung out with my sheep and I thought you might enjoy a bit of it. (please ignore anything stupid that I may say, including my baby talk. I am powerless in the face of such adorableness) Hope this brightens your Monday! PS. If your Monday needs a little more fun, join . . . → Read More: Sheep-watching Maddie (seen above) is a bit miffed that I haven’t blogged much about her life. She wants you to know that she was shorn months ago and I just got around to carding her fiber. Simply unacceptable! She was happy to learn the Xiane took the majority of her fleece (she can’t bear to think of it unused!) but chided me on my own slacker-y-ness. Shera, who donated her very first fleece to my fiber-y pursuits is slightly more relaxed about it, but she would like you to know that I’ll be selling some of her dyed locks (so curly!) and a few batts carded from her fleece. The fiber will be in the Boutique tomorrow (Saturday, 11/14) at noon (EST). The sheep hope you . . . → Read More: Fiber Friday – Sheepies Friday afternoon, I went with my mom to pick up our first sheep from Hobby Knob Farm. Since we don’t have a trailer, we used my mom’s minivan to bring them home. This is no easy task, as sheep don’t understand the whole “hop in” concept. (if these pictures are shaky, it’s because I am laughing SO hard) Once in the van, they calmed right down and gave one look back to their former farm. I was intimately involved in getting them OUT of the van, so there aren’t any pictures of that. (Imagine me holding onto the leash, trying to talk the sheep into jumping down). Once they were out and into the yard, the youngest one (we haven’t decided on a name yet – I call her Shera (Princess of Power) and the brothers call her Baby) started munching: The older one, formerly named Itsy Bitsy, is decidedly UN-itsy. My 8 year old brother promptly renamed . . . → Read More: Sheep! My Sheep! Each year, for the last 3 years my mom and I have loaded my car with knitting projects, magazines, and coffee and driven to Maryland Sheep & Wool. The first year, we drove from Ohio – a 12 hour drive! This year, it was a much shorter trip, just 5-6 hours (depending on how many times we stop for coffee!) We left Friday morning, drove to Frederick, MD (note to self: you must stop at Zazzy’z because there is not another coffee shop until Staunton). Frederick’s an adorable town with a nice little downtown with lots of boutiques (like The Muse), restaurants and ice cream. We met up with Mia and meandered around town. I don’t eat seafood but my mom loves crabs, so we had dinner at May’s – endless crabs for Mom, a fantastically broiled chicken for me. Saturday dawned rainy and dreary but I leapt out of bed, excited or the festival! Maryland . . . → Read More: Maryland Sheep & Wool 2009 A fun visit to a local farm. . . . → Read More: Local Fiber – Rammings Farm |
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