Sheep Shearing Party

The new shearer just called last night and moved up shearing a week to Saturday, February 16th. I'm not ready. I was going to use that weekend to get ready! Needless to say he isn't scoring points in my eyes right now. Also, the list of reserved fleeces has disappeared. I remember a few, but there were so many. More panic. Now I'm just trying to let everyone know the change. Even more panic. This will teach me to plan ahead.

So with that, everyone is invited to our annual sheep shearing party on Saturday, February 16, 2008. We have purebred Shetlands and Blue Face Leicester. We will be starting at 10 am and going until all 62 sheep are naked. The farm is at 3031 102nd Avenue; Allegan, MI 49010-9734. There will be spinning, knitting, crocheting and visiting. Please send me a message if you need a phone number or directions. It would be swell if folks brought a dish to pass. The guys from Wooly Knob are coming up on Sunday, February 17th if anyone has fleeces to drop off. They are usually at the farm around 2pm and leave about 5pm.

One victim down

I've killed my first victim in Death by Socks and she was nice enough to send me a picture of her demise. I'm waiting for the next victim's socks to arrive. I think I will give up on the camera fairy and go buy one myself. I just became a part of Raverly.com and pictures of projects would be a really good thing. If you aren't part of it, you should check it out. Its a dangerous place really. All sorts of patterns and groups to get a person in trouble. And here I thought I would do some stash busting this year.

We have a new cat, even though the boy friend keeps saying she's temporary. I've named her Violet Temperance and she was rescued from Bowen's Mills. She is a cute grey and white little girl with thumbs (extra claws). I think that she is starting to settle in and the other two are tolerating her existance.

I've gone back to school and I can say that I'm not impressed with my instructor. Both of my classes are web based, which I think is the way to go. My instructor has discussion questions in one of the classes and so far they have been watch tv or the Superbowl for the commercials and discuss them. I'm trying to severely cut back my tv viewing. I'm not a big football person either. At least she could have given us the option of the Superbowl or Daytona. I would much rather watch Daytona. Better for projects anyway. The local embroidery shop had their annual Superbowl sale and I think that I got every pattern that had a sheep on it. Now just to find the time to work on them.