Sheep Shearing!

It's the annual Sheep Shearing party at the Foothill Farm. There were about a dozen people here today to help with the shearing, shots, worming, trimming, skirting, labeling and bagging. Then the real fun - the lunch and spinning in the afternoon.

Aunt Pat's shearer is about 93 years old, and still kickin. He took his time, and got the sheep clean, and the fleece off with as few second cuts as possible. With all the help, the sheep were done in about 3 hours total.

 Eli and Router both spent most of the day indoors - both to keep out of trouble!

 The buffet featured Sheri-Emina's wonderful fresh green salad and cabbage salad and triple chocolate cupcakes, Brigit's chicken salsa chili, Carlean's marinated chicken and sausage, sliced wraps, brown basmati rice, and I made Stilton cheese muffin 'poppers' and prosciutto-wrapped melon, and GFCF chocolate sponge cake to share. To top it off, there was Purple Moon Shiraz, Honey Moon Viognier, and nice Beringer white. Yum! No one left hungry!

And here is the newly shorn, nekid flock - all ready for summer!