I wrote a post about Shearing Day a couple of days ago but there was more!

There were photos of Ginny and Oakley (the shearer’s dog) in the last post. Rusty even wanted to play. Not bad for an almost 15 year old dog.

The last post ended up with a lunch break. (Too bad we couldn’t have the fabulous potluck that has happened in other years.) I had brought a friend’s sheep here to dry out and stay dry so they could also be shorn. They were the after-lunch group.

We were amused by this sheep’s fluffy hairdo.

I watched this sheep butt others with her horns and she must have been doing that earlier to come in with this look.

Farm Club members helped clean the barn after we finished shearing, and they valiantly braved the lake to dump the wheelbarrow loads.. This is what happens after only 2” of rain.

They also spent time looking through fleeces.

After finishing with all the sheep I like to take some photos of how they look without fleece.

This is Sheila.

Meridian Axle.

Ruby Peak Tamarisk, on the left, is the sheep I picked up this summer in Oregon (blog post here). Meridian Jasper is on the right.

Rocky is a wether whose only job is to be a buddy sheep when I need to move someone else (usually a ram) into separate quarters.

Peyton is the BFL ram who weighed in that morning at 281 pounds!

Farm Club members took some of the fleeces but there are still a lot left.