Bridgemoof--Sheep & Wool festival

[Bridgemoof]

Well, sold my Santa with the little girl to a lady in my Sheep Producer's Association! She was at the market with me on Saturday and fell in love with it. She wants it as a centerpiece for her Christmas table.

So, as far as going to the parties today, I decided I can pick one, and I'll be lucky if I make it to that. So, it was "old friends and bake cookies? Or new friends and make a felted gift...." The cookies got as far as setting the bag of chocolate chips out on the counter. The felting got as far as a Christmas tree with an elf that is 75% done. If I finish that I can go to the Spinners holiday party, which is local. That is if some work emergency doesn't come up, and I have time to actually take a shower! The party starts at 10 a.m..

Wish me God Speed! :bun

 

[Bridgemoof]

Well I give up. It wasn't meant for me to go anywhere today. It's 9:30, the elf is still only 75% done. I went out and fed and saw that the Jacob sheep that we sheared was shivering.....awwww!!!! I mentioned it to Tim and he had noticed the same thing. We felt bad for her. Forget what I said about sheep not being cold. I think she is. So he took a horse blanket and folded it down and told me to glue it with gorilla glue. I decided to try and sew it instead. Well, the thread broke on the sewing machine and I spent a half hour trying to thread the needle and gave up.

So in the meantime Tim is yelling at me to try use the gorilla glue. I didn't want the blanket sticking to the poor sheep! But I tried it, it's not going to work I don't think. So he also had the idea to take gorilla tape and tape the seams over where it was glued. Except he didn't know where the gorilla tape was, which means a half hour of looking for it.

So I go out there to look for the tape, and I'm going to give up and try putting a sweater on her. Then Tim came out and said he thought a down vest like he was wearing would work. Great idea! I had one. So I got the vest, and it was pretty, a light blue suede type thing. We get it on her and it looks lovely, but Tim is screaming that it's too small. So I go get another one, a dark blue, which isn't as pretty, but we got it on her and I know it is helping to keep her warm. So now my Jacob is wearing a down vest, zipper on the top, and it's such a good idea I may go to the thrift store and see if I can buy a bunch more. Marge seems fine, she ended up with more wool on her than the Jacob.

So, it's now almost 10, and I have resigned myself to the fact that being a farmer=no friends, and no social life. But my sheep is warm by golly!

 

[jodief100]

So, it's now almost 10, and I have resigned myself to the fact that being a farmer=no friends, and no social life. But my sheep is warm by golly!

You have us! I am glad you figured out the vest with your sheep. I wound up putting the dogs coats on the goats one year. The babies were cold and the coats I made for the Italian Greyhound rescue fit just fine!

 

[Bridgemoof]

I know I have you guys and that's why I'm here

I'll go take a picture of my sheep since I'm not going anywhere

 

[Bridgemoof]

Here is the cold sheep!

 

[marlowmanor]

Here is the cold sheep!

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/5910_img_9654.jpg

She looks so stylish! So ya'll had the temperature drop too. We went from 60 degree days to 40 degree days in a day. Yesterday the high was in the mid 60s, this morning I went out to get some groceries and it was 42 degrees with wind making it feel colder. BRRRR!

 

[Bridgemoof]

Yep temps dropped alright. It is only supposed to be in the 40s today and 27 tonight. Brrrrr for the sheepie! I think if we shear the others we will just crutch them out. I don't want to have to come up with coats for all of them! They can last a few more months I think.

 

[BrownSheep]

I don't think we've gotten above 40 degrees in wuite a while.

 

[purplequeenvt]

They really will be ok if you shear them now. They will shiver a bit or maybe even a lot, but give them plenty of hay and a place to get out of the wind and they will be fine. We shear our ewes when it is much colder than it is right now.

The ewe looks cute in that vest!

 

[autumnprairie]

The things we do for our animals. I : love it