A Baby Of A Different Feather

On the way home from Tanglewood Farm yesterday, we stopped to check on the Heron rookery.

Almost as cute as a lamb! Double biggify (click once and then click the new picture) to see momma looking back at her baby. The universal momma look :-).

Lamb Cam

Did you see me on tv? No, not with Ewen, but with flowerweaver on the lamb cam!







Lambing has started at Tanglewood Farm.



You know what that means...

So A Sheep Walks Into A Bar...

From an email sent to our festival secretary.

"According to my husband, you all deserve the marketing award of the year for bringing a "sheep" to the downtown festivities today ... He called me a couple of times from downtown and said the (sex unknown to me!) huge sheep was in McCarthy's bar and other places, and had the following of a "rock star." "

Ewen kinda likes the rock star part :-D.



If you missed Alice's limerick in the comments yesterday, I posted it on Twitter - see right.

And here are some classics found by Deb W. I especially like "...Ah, now the problems start."

Thanks Deb!

Enjoy :-D


A sheep walks into a bar and orders a beer and a sandwich.

The bartender looks at him and says, "But you're a sheep."

"I see your eyes are working," replies the sheep.

"And you talk!" exclaims the bartender.

"I see your ears are working," says the sheep, "Now can I have my beer and my sandwich, please?"

"Certainly," says the bartender, "sorry about that, it's just we don't get many talking sheep in this pub. What are you doing round this way?"

"I'm working on the building site across the road," explains the sheep.

So the sheep drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, pays and leaves. This continues for 2 weeks. Then one day the circus comes to town. The ringleader of the circus comes into the pub and the bartender tells him about the incredible talking sheep.

"Marvelous!" says the ringleader, "get him to come see me."

So the next day, the sheep comes into the pub. The bartender says, "Hey, Mr. Sheep, I lined you up with a top job paying really good money!"

"Yeah?" says the sheep, "Sounds great, where is it?"

"At the circus" says the bartender.

"The circus?" the sheep enquires.

"That's right," replies the bartender.

"The circus? That place with the big tent? With all the animals? With the big canvas roof with the hole in the middle?" asks the sheep.

"That's right!" says the bartender.

The sheep looks confused and asks: "What on earth do they want with a carpenter?"

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A sheep walks into a bar with jumper cables. The bartender says, "You can come in, but don't start anything!"

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A sheep walks into a bar and says, "Give me a beer before problems start!" Again, the sheep orders a beer again saying, "Give me a beer before problems start!" The bartender looks confused. This goes on for a while, and after the fifth beer the bartender is totally confused and asks the sheep, "When are you going to pay for these beers?" The sheep answers, "Ah, now the problems start!"

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An old lady walks into a bar with a sheep on a leash. A scraggly old drunk staggers over, takes one look, and says, Jeeeez, that's the UGLIEST thing I ever saw! The woman turns her nose up at him and says, This happens to be a stately creature! Go away, you horrid man! The old drunk yells, Lady, I was talkin' to the sheep!

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A man goes into a bar with a sheep, they both get a couple of rounds in. When they get up to leave they're extremely drunk and the sheep passes out and falls over. The man opens the door, about to leave by himself, when the bartender stops him suddenly and says, "Hey! You can't leave that lyin' there!" The man turns around and slurs, "Don't be silly, that's not a lion, that's a sheep!"

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A sheep walks into a bar. He orders a beer. The bartender says, "That'll be $10. You know, we don't get many talking sheep coming in here, you know." The sheep says, "At $10 a beer, it's not hard to understand."

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A sheep walks into a bar, sits down and hears a small voice say, "You look nice today." A few minutes later he again hears a small voice, "That's a nice woolly coat." The sheep asks the bartender, "Who is that?" The bartender says, "Those are the peanuts. They're complimentary."

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A guy walks into a bar and there is a sheep behind the bar serving drinks. The guy is just staring at the sheep, when the sheep says, "What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a sheep serving drinks before?" The guy says, "No, I just never thought the horse would sell the place."

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A sheep, a blind guy and a priest walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Hey, what is this? Some kind of joke?"

An Idiot Abroad

Me and a few of my favorite sheep spent the day downtown at the St. Patrick's Day festival and parade in Lexington, Kentucky.



Ewen McTeagle, who would follow me to the ends of the earth. Or a bar.



We were actually there working, promoting the second annual Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival coming up (too) soon, May 21st and 22nd.



I chose Keebler as one of the sheep ambassadors not because I thought he'd enjoy doing this job, but because he's broke to lead. Possibly having to lead down a crowded sidewalk to get back to the trailer, this was important.

I knew he'd be miserable, but decided everyone's got to pull their weight. He surprised me and actually had a great time (being the star of the show).



B. Willard just has crazy eyes. He's done several of these meet and greets and doesn't seem to mind them at all.

"I see green people. "



Ewen was a little stressed in the beginning. He's not been off the farm except for participating in a live nativity as a baby. He marched into McCarthy's though like he owned the place. Unfortunately we didn't get any good inside pictures :-/.



Miss Iris was the Border Collie representative and did an outstanding job letting kids of all ages pet, pat, pull, kiss and hug on her. For hours. You could tell she was worn out by the end, but she never backed off from her duties. Her Aunt Debbie will be proud.



Deb W. taught about a hundred kids how to spin.



And this gentleman walked up, grabbed my drop spindle and went to spinning. He said he'd learned to spin at the deaf school back in the early 50's and wanted to see if he still remembered how to do it. He did!



I was really looking forward to seeing the sheep herded down the parade route, but never heard them coming because they were buried behind an extremely loud and I'm sure scary (to a sheep) motorcycle group. Grrr.



But look what I found in the common area. The first of the season.

I think this should be able to pull double duty for Sunday Stills - The Letter P because it was St Patrick's Day.

For more Sunday Stills...

Trashing The Joint

Pretty much only the vacuum came from the wash room renovation project. Everything else? Stash from the attic.



Oh, and some boxes.

I keep boxes.

That I never use.

They take up a lot of space.

But I might need one sometime.

But I haven't used but maybe one.

Ever watched any of those hoarding shows?

Yep, they'll scare you straight!

S0, once I tear down the boxes and send them to the recycle center, I'm going to go through all the bags of miscellaneous stash. There is some lovely but lonely fiber there looking for some love - several small bags of alpaca - various colors, samples from workshops that I've taken that I really should spin...but if I haven't yet... Some roving I don't recognize/remember, but looks nice. You get the idea.

Anyone interested in a spring cleaning giveaway?



Because, ready or not (since our sheep are nekkid, I can no longer wish for more snow :-/), spring is right around the corner.