Family Circus

Spring is truly here and the green is so green and lush that some of our sheep are starting to look like walruses. Seriously. Not healthy. Starting yesterday I've been limiting them to two hours of free grazing in the morning and two hours grazing in the evening (someone needs to do this to me!). They are not happy about this and here's what we have to show for it this afternoon.

Who did this?




"Not me." (Remember that ghost from the Family Circus cartoon?)



"I'd never break a door (and part of a wall) down."



Your pretty much daily dose of Keebler cuteness ;-).

I'm On It!

Several years ago I sold my Ashford Table Loom on eBay. I should never have done that, but I was trying to finance an eight harness Baby Mac and thought that was the logical thing to do. I miss that loom :-(. Little did I know as we were trying to arrange the shipping (she lives in Alaska!) that she would become one of my favorite people and here we are again, now shipping a spinning wheel back and forth. She has asked me to paint all sorts of fiber animals around the wheel and treadle of her Ashford Traditional.

Okay, sounds fun.

"I'll trade you native Alaska qiviut blended with silk."

I'm on it!

Let me just tell you, this stuff is so soft that you can't really even feel it when you touch it. It feels like air...but softer.

It's even softer than the boy wonder.



But he's cuter ;-).

Barber Shop

Keebler goes everywhere with me. He would stay with his momma in "real" life, so I figure he should stay with his adopted mom as well. We go out and play several times a day, take naps together (especially if it's raining and cold and there's a good movie on tv on a Sunday afternoon ;-), go out to graze and learn how to eat sticks and stuff (Weaslie's in charge of that part of the program) and we even do chores together.

Friday we gave Miss Ewenice her spring haircut. Keebler helped by finding stuff to do around the barn for awhile and then things got quiet and I knew he'd lain down for a nap. As I led Ewenice off the stand I looked around to see where he'd ended up.



Right by my side.



Pretty comfy bed, eh?

Not quite. Here's a funny fact about Keebler. He hates stuff touching him. He hates wet grass, hates when he accidentaly touches dandelions gone to seed, isn't jazzed about being toweled off if he gets rained on...



Silly little baby.

Going To Town

Keebler and I demonstrated spinning at the Raggedy Ann Festival in our small town today. It was a beautiful spring day, my company just the cutest and I got to actually sit down and spin for awhile.



A perfect day!

Working Hardly

I had decided Miss Ewenice was too old and fat to be shorn the other day when the shearer was here, so Keebler and I played beauty parlor with her (standing up) after lunch today. There are some super cute pictures coming - thank goodness I had my camera with me - but I need to be doing a little more workin' and a little less playin' this afternoon...

Keebler and I try to balance out all our hard work with some good napping though, so after we got done shearing, we headed to his favorite tree for a snooze. The bees above us were exceptionally happy this afternoon and I believe if I'd had the video camera with me you'd have easily been able to hear their busy buzzing.






Definitely click to biggify to, at very least, see the orange pollen they are collecting on their legs. Aren't they just fascinating?

Keebler was completely oblivious, pollen or not. In fact, after several days of sleeping to the sound of my Haagen-Daz bee screen saver, he probably figured he was inside.





Don't you just hate when someone catches you sleeping with your mouth open :-).

By the way, I don't mind at all if you use any of my pictures as a personal screen saver. I trust you'll be kind. Enjoy!