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Whew.

Ok, I hadn’t mentioned this on the blog before, but this week we are on vacation.

An intensive fencing vacation.

We didn’t do any fencing Saturday, so today was day three.

It’s going well, but even with the tractor’s help (which is substantial) it is mighty hard work, and we’re pretty pooped.

We’ve got the stretch along the front of our property done yesterday, and this afternoon we put in another three-post corner, after spending some considerable time clearing the fenceline  of offending shubbery.

But this morning, I got to help out with shearing over at Schoonover Farm!

Arrived at 10am, and the sheep were already penned up and ready to rumble.

The shearer (whose name I don’t remember) did a amazing job- it took all of 2 hours to do maybe 30 sheep?

I mostly held sheep after shearing and helped get them into the sling thingee so Donna could do hoof trimming and vaccinations.

Doesn’t Lewis look happy?

Was a lot of fun, a great learning experience, and I got a fleece for my efforts!

Not sure of the name on this guy. He’s a moorit yearling wether.

What a great day!

Will have pics of fencing progress tomorrow-

Available here.

We’ve got chickens!

Baby chickens, anyway:

3 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Buff Orpington, and 1 Gold Sex Link

Here’s the little chickie setup in the shop:

They are definitely more alert and active than when they first got home.
Yesterday they were just “peeping”. Today they are really “cheeping”!

And while they are eating and drinking and cheeping and growing, The Man is working on their permanent accommodations:

When it’s done, it will look pretty much like this-

Neat, eh?

The Shepherd’s Vest is done! I handed it off to Tina on Saturday.

Sure do hope it fits. I’m so used to being able to do try-ons as I go when I knit for myself and The Man.

I think it turned out really well.

The yarn being two colors gives a nice marled effect and provides enough textural interest without any cabling or patterned stitches.

It hopefully will serve as a dependable go-with-everything extra layer.

Can never have too many sweaters like that.

And so now it’s on to the next project!

This is the rest of the half-fleece I bought back in November. Just freshly washed up.

It has a nice range of colors that I’ve sorted into light, medium and dark batches.

I’ve already used some of it to knit some socks (because it’s just so easy to cast on for more standard recipe socks).

But I’ve already got a couple more skeins in standby, and I’m thinking of a sweater.

A Shades of Gray sweater. Dark to light, or light to dark.

Light and soft and simple.