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Jul. 17th, 2024 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unicorndukeLast night I went to shear a sheep and give demos to a community center.
It went...interestingly. They had not caught the sheep and I sheared in the grass. I had a herd of about 25 girls and young women watching and the poor sheep had the fleece too long but had tried to shed some of it, so it was alternatively felted in huge chunks or very little growth.
it was an easy shear, the sheep was small and well behaved and I talked through it a little bit. The community center organizer had wanted me to allow the girls to do a little shearing but there was a giant thunderstorm rolling in and the girls were pretty clearly unfamiliar with sheep, so I just sheared everything and let them pet her afterwards. They asked a bunch of good questions.
After we put the sheep away, we gathered on the porch and I taught them about fleece processing and spinning yarn. At this point, the giant thunderstorm moved in which was kinda wild. The organizer was interested the most, he was asking questions about flax processing and fleece processing and relating it to Jewish scripture which was a pretty neat discussion.
In total I was there about an hour and a half ,which was pretty good and about what I expected.
I tried to go home and got detoured by something that they had blocked the whole road for and had emergency services out for, so my 15 minute drive home was 30 mins instead since there's no good quick detours around here.
Got home and oop, our power was out. So I sat on the porch and chatted with F while I stopped sweating, then wiped myself down with a damp towel so I wouldn't be covered in sheep hair in bed. F said the power went out before the storm even reached us and there was tons of power outages around the area. There were tornados somewhere but not super nearby. While we were sitting out there, F got a text from the roofing guy saying they'd be out in the morning.
Power came back on around 12:45, so I was able to shower first thing in the morning.
Roofing crew is here tearing the roof off, it's loud. I'm working from home this morning and then running to the office this afternoon to do some printing and mailing that needs to happen. The roofing crew apparently doesn't need anything from us including not moving our vehicles so that works for me. I'll offer the bathroom around lunch time if they don't have a porta potty. I'm just hoping they don't throw stuff into the back garden. They're really just chucking stuff off the house. They have shaken loose every bit of dust from the dining room area, so everything is going to need a good clean. No idea how long the roof will take.
It went...interestingly. They had not caught the sheep and I sheared in the grass. I had a herd of about 25 girls and young women watching and the poor sheep had the fleece too long but had tried to shed some of it, so it was alternatively felted in huge chunks or very little growth.
it was an easy shear, the sheep was small and well behaved and I talked through it a little bit. The community center organizer had wanted me to allow the girls to do a little shearing but there was a giant thunderstorm rolling in and the girls were pretty clearly unfamiliar with sheep, so I just sheared everything and let them pet her afterwards. They asked a bunch of good questions.
After we put the sheep away, we gathered on the porch and I taught them about fleece processing and spinning yarn. At this point, the giant thunderstorm moved in which was kinda wild. The organizer was interested the most, he was asking questions about flax processing and fleece processing and relating it to Jewish scripture which was a pretty neat discussion.
In total I was there about an hour and a half ,which was pretty good and about what I expected.
I tried to go home and got detoured by something that they had blocked the whole road for and had emergency services out for, so my 15 minute drive home was 30 mins instead since there's no good quick detours around here.
Got home and oop, our power was out. So I sat on the porch and chatted with F while I stopped sweating, then wiped myself down with a damp towel so I wouldn't be covered in sheep hair in bed. F said the power went out before the storm even reached us and there was tons of power outages around the area. There were tornados somewhere but not super nearby. While we were sitting out there, F got a text from the roofing guy saying they'd be out in the morning.
Power came back on around 12:45, so I was able to shower first thing in the morning.
Roofing crew is here tearing the roof off, it's loud. I'm working from home this morning and then running to the office this afternoon to do some printing and mailing that needs to happen. The roofing crew apparently doesn't need anything from us including not moving our vehicles so that works for me. I'll offer the bathroom around lunch time if they don't have a porta potty. I'm just hoping they don't throw stuff into the back garden. They're really just chucking stuff off the house. They have shaken loose every bit of dust from the dining room area, so everything is going to need a good clean. No idea how long the roof will take.
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Date: 2024-07-17 03:46 pm (UTC)Probably not having the kids sheer was a good thing. They wouldn't have gotten a good feel for it anyway and would have gotten all hairy and greasy which might have put them off sheep.
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Date: 2024-07-17 04:20 pm (UTC)Some of the kids were appalled when they petted the sheep and they got grease and wool on their hands, so I'm happy with my decision. I was a little worried about the weight of the felted wool too, it was pulling the skin around too much.
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Date: 2024-07-17 11:42 pm (UTC)