11/10/2005

Sheep Barn progress

Today was supposed to be a “rain” day for Ernie, which means indoor plaster work on an old house nearby. But lo and behold, the sun is here, the winds are whipping and the temperature is 40, but he’s going to work on the sheep barn. Siding is going up along the back wall and if there’s time and more boards, along the front. Last night was a cold blowing rain all night. The sheep in the far pen made due with out a roof over their heads. God Bless them. The metal roofing is due to be delivered on Saturday morning, just in time for our planned roofing day. How convienent!

I’m washing lamb fleece for a customer that wants it spun up into yarn. It’s off the wether ram lamb “Aaron”, who was the cutest little lamb in the bucket which I had on the website front page all summer. His fleece is soft and lovely. He is half Leicester Longwool and half Bluefaced Leicester. What’s not to like? I planned on having him be the companion sheep for the ram of whomever needs a companion at any given time. Right now Aaron and Raz are together. Raz is the open ram lamb that will be harvested soon, he’s half LL and half Costwold. The lamb fleece shorn off of him is awesome too.

I’ll be working of dying alot of the lamb fleece to make into some lovely colored rovings. I probably have about 20 new colors to experiment with.

All for now, Lisa