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Farm "stuff" fills a lot of time, but I am in the shop "most" days and spindles are being turned ...slowly but surely. The grass is growing faster than the sheep can eat it. This year's 'crop' of lambs is still with their moms. -- they are boisterous and GROWING. There are six multi-colored piggies back "in the woods". The layers are laying and the broilers should arrive at the post office in a week and a half		TOOTING OUR HORN! Bergetta's fleece scored "Best Coopworth Fleece" at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival last month!! Coopworth fleeces available for sale. E-mail for particulars
WOODSHOP NEWS Currently (this'd be early June '07) there are no spindles or other tasty wooden thingies made and ready to ship.
I keep saying this, but it should not be too much longer before we're able to do business more normally! Meanwhile, as spindles become available we're alerting people on "the list". To be sure you're "on the list", send us an "InStock" e-mail as per below.

Sneaky photo by Amy McCoy

Aaron's girlfriend Lindsay assembled this frosty fellow one afternoon a few winters back -- waiting patiently while Aaron changed the oil in his pickup, or cleaned the sparkplug on his snowmobile, or maybe he was installing a winch on his ATV ......Well, you get the idea, he was doing some "guy thing" or the other.

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Skye! our Border Collie "pup" is now 7 years old!!. He's grown into quite a big Border Collie. A few things have NOT changed == he's STILL very active and curious and requires CONSTANT attention and supervision. He loves doing chores, always hopeful we'll put him in with the sheep. He does seem to be learning the difference between "Come by" and "Away to me" (the way one tells a sheepdog to circle the sheep clockwise or counter-clockwise, respectively). He still gets a bit over-enthusiastic and "forgets" to listen -- what could Pam and I possibly know about herding sheep that would be of any use to him?!

• Some things UNUSUAL -- I've turned a few "special order" spindles of the larger than life ilk. What do you think?
  
• Hey! Check out the Stripper! ...got your attention? <G>
  The "Stripper" is what I'm calling my maximized (or is it minimized??) versions of the Lady Ann and Long Lady.
  
• Russian Lace Spindles -- I keep honing the design of the Hatchtown versions of these support spindles. My more bulbous shape in heavier/nicer woods is proving popular amongst the "supported" crowd.

• Fine-tuning your spindles' hooksYou might have a high whorl drop spindle that never worked right ...or maybe it worked fine but then mysteriously began spinning out-of-kilterly. Take a look at our hook-tweaking suggestions. We've heard from a bunch of spinners who've managed to give new life to hooked spindles that had been retired.
  
• WPI Instructions -- WPI means "Wraps-per-Inch. So what's it to you?
  
• ?? Niddy Noddy ?? Why not? Have you wondered what it REALLY is that people ACTUALLY do with these things in the privacy of their homes??

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• Important!! If you get lost <BG>, clicking on the Hatchtown logo button will always bring you back here to the homepage from anywhere on the website. Have Fun! Jump all around and investigate everything.
• Tools -- This is where you'll find our handturned Handspindles, Niddies, WPI gauges, Etcetera -- Also Marudai for Kumihimo
• Sheep - Based on cyber-feedback, stories about, and pictures of, the sheep are the best things about this website! Click here to see Registered Coopworth Breeding Stock for sale, Lambing Journal, shearing pictures and the like.
• Fairs, Festivals & Sheep Shows -- Where we are, were and weren't and why ...reports, photographs, expectations and thoughts!!!
• Yarn - Textures and colors to delight! Custom handspinning available
• Please sign our GUESTBOOK! (powered by BraveNet.com)
• Fleece & Fiber - Pam's spinnable offerings -- << under construction >>
• Favorite Links -- Some neat and useful websites we've discovered

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Until I get around to doing a completely complete re-think of site-structure, I'm sprinkling this yellow/orange "Order Button" throughout the site. Clicking on it will whisk you effortlessley to the "Order Info" page where I've tucked all the necessary "business blah/blah/blah" -- an actual "printout-able" order form is then one click from there.

We're now hooked up with the PayPal people.

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