Yesterday's Random Photos

Yesterday was busy, as is every day lately…which I why I haven’t written many blog posts.

I went to a friend’s house to help at her shearing day. You might recognize John, the shearer who shear’s our flock.

John’s dog comes along when he shears.

This flock includes Karakul, Navajo-churro, Jacob, Shetland, CVM and maybe some others I can’t think of right now.

A surprise treat was to see a bald eagle land in one of the trees. This is a rare sight here, but it has been hanging around this property for awhile.

At home I knew I had to start getting the new yarn on the website and get it labeled for a retreat and a guild meeting happening this weekend. This is corespun yarn I just picked up from Valley Oak Wool Mill. I have no idea how to use it yet, but I think it will be fun to experiment with.

After the previous day’s Mix It Up weaving class I wound my own warp and got it on the loom. No time to weave it yet. I want to have it ready to do a weaving demo for the groups coming this weekend.

Handspun Jacob yarn that I needed to wash for a couple of other events/ideas coming up.

Then I went to help a friend with a sheep task, but it didn’t take long. I had to be back here in time for an appointment with someone who had contacted me a couple of months ago about doing pregnancy photos with sheep—something that his wife wanted.

The original idea was that the husband would be the photographer, but his wife wanted him in the photos too (and, he explained, he’s better at taking car photos than this style) so they brought a photographer. After doing a photoshoot with a flower bouquet in front of my blooming wisteria we went to the barn. I couldn’t get all the sheep to gather around, but there are always the pets that will cooperate. That’s Jade and Hazel with the couple.

The sheep wanted some grain to be enticed to stay with strangers, but that worked.

Later, even when there was no more grain, Jade was into the photoshoot.

I caught a lamb to be part of the photoshoot.

My day doesn’t end at sunset I usually spend a least a few hours in front of the computer working on emails, labels, bookkeeping, etc. Those make for boring photos.