Sheep Shearing

This year's annual sheep shearing drew in more than 20 friends and friends-of-friends to lend a hand in sorting wool and petting and playing with the fun fluffy stuff. We had two skirting tables this time (thank you, mom!) for the dozen or so that took shifts skirting, labeling and bagging.

 
And our sheep-wrangling crew...

Mia made this fabuous hat as a gift for one of the shearers from wool spun up by Sherry from the last shearing. Aunt Pat is working on socks.









 



Don is still at it! He very proudly threw the fleeces he sheared onto the skirting table and talked about the various types sheep he's seen recently as well as the 1000+ head operations he worked in the past.

And, as always, we had a big pot-luck lunch al fresco to celebrate the day with dishes from sweet-n-sour meatballs to spinach lasagne, Peep sushi, fruit salad, to our favorite Costco chicken and Moscato d'Asti.