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Shades of the Flock

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Been spending some quality time with the carder lately.
Catching up on processing fleece now that summer seems to be retreating.

At least rainy weather is good for something!

Here is some Chone-
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And some Edgar/Griff-

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And the Frank/Felix-
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Thought it was probably a good idea to move some fiber down the pipeline, as I’ll probably have some new fall fleeces entering the wool pool soon!

Oh, I did a little bit of blending, too-
Here is Chone all gussied up with some dyed Romney and mohair

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And I finally have a picture of Vintage Mood that looks like something!
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Just a few more inches to go-
I think it’s going to be a nice wardobe addition- and mighty toasty!

Sheep Cam!

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The next stage in keeping ahead of the sheeps has just been implemented.

Small camera, mounted up high, so that I can spy on unsuspecting ovines.

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Here is about the perpective that the camera takes in-

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Neat, eh?
Yeah, The Man is all over the tech stuff. Even got the sheeps wired now!

Meanwhile, on the other side of the fence, pups are hanging loose after a game of apple fetch.

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Apple fetch is my new favorite sport.
Noone has to actually return the “ball” ( the hardest part of the game to master 🙂 )
You just keep throwing and running, and throwing and running.
The apples even kind of bounce like tennis balls.
No shortage of them on the ground this time of year!

Happy to Be Stump Free!

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Hope y’all had a lovely holiday weekend.

We celebrated Labor Day by…..
Laboring (of course!)

But we had the help of a specialist-
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a big hydraulic stump grinder from our local Home Depot.

We took out 15 stumps.
Some enormous, some kinda piddly. But all are now outta here!

I could show you pictures of patches of dirt where the troublesome stumps used to be, but that is not very exciting.

So here are the sheeps!

Here are Edgar and Chone preparing to be beamed up-

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Frank sporting some seasonal facial color-

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Griff digging in to some salmonberries-

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I’m going to have to try harder to get pics of Felix. He’s kind of shy.

I haven’t made a lot of progress on the new sweater yet, so we’re not going to look in on that this week.

Instead, I wanted to show you something completely different!

I’ve recently been inspired to do some embroidery. It all started with this book-

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I found it at the university bookstore. The bird illustrations are so neat,

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I just knew I had to stitch some of them!

Here is the first one I’ve done-

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And a picture of the drawing from the book-

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What I’m doing is tracing the line drawings onto parchment paper (like the kind you use for baking), using a Sulky iron-on transfer pen to define the pattern on the reverse of the parchment, then ironing on to an old pair of khaki pants.

Next up-

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No idea what I’m going to do with them yet.
I just like them a whole lot.