Our shearing is scheduled for Saturday, March 20th — the first day of Spring!
When I made the date, I didn’t realize it was a “good karma” date. But what a nice day to celebrate our harvest. And if there are any fleecey sheep left in the pen when we call it a day, we’ll finish up on Sunday. Emily (our fabulous shearer) and I will firm things up a little closer to the date. As soon as I know real times, etc I’ll post them. (Usually Emily arrives about 9:30AM)
We hope you’ll come and get your hands into some wonderfully warm fleeces. Really…if you’ve never had your hands in a freshly shorn fleece…you need to do it! If you’ve never skirted a fleece, that’s OK… we’ll teach you. If you’re an old pro, lucky us! But if you just want to stand by and watch, that’s OK, too! Please leave a comment, email or call us if you’d like to come by so we can plan for refreshments.
Here are a couple of photos from last year —
Who wants to be next?
pretty grey fleece coming off -- thanks to ewe & Emily
If I lived on your side of the continent, I’d be there! I know it will be a fun day! (and Emily is clearly excellent, nt a single second cut in Bandita’s fleece!).
Oh Boy!!! Unless I’m out of town I will be there! I love shearing and skirting time…though I have only observed shearing twice in my life and helped out with skirting once, I love being part of it. No doubt you’ll keep us all posted as the date approaches and I would love to help out in any way I can. What a treat it will be to help skirt the lucious, clean, and soft fleece from your beautiful wooly creatures! Thanks for the ‘save the date’ notice.
I wish you could come, too!
Yay! I hope you’ll be in town so you can come. It’s going to be fun!
Roger and I will plan to be there on Saturday, the 20th. We are really excited!
Wonderful! Looking forward to seeing you!