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Today was shearing day, the culmination of a year’s hard work.  Fortunately we had Deb Robson taking photos for us this year along with the usual shearing “crew”.

This is Jemima waiting to be sheared.

And her being sheared.

And her wool after shearing.

This is Jewel waiting.

This is Huey.

And him being sheared.

This is Monette.

Some wet sheep after shearing.

Tom and I.

Jethro waiting to be sheared.

And being sheared.

Diddley being sheared.

Denise packing wool into bags.

Logan waiting to be sheared.

And being sheared.

Eliz moving the sheared sheep out of the barn.

Ewegenie.

Mutiny.

Hazelnut.

Eifion’s shoe.

Eliz.

Tom.

Bambam.

Bambam being sheared.

Eifion.

Denise with wool.

Mr. D waiting.

And being sheared.

Denise and I.

Brown Sugar waiting.

And being sheared.

Wet cold sheared sheep.

And Eifion all finished.

We had a great shearing day (despite the torrential weather) including pizza, sodas, and hard cider.  Next will be drying the 25 fleeces and recuperating.

Tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of the Oso mudslide.  Tom and I were having a relaxing Saturday morning  when Tom found out about the slide, and we listened to the scanner.  We heard the sounds of people desperately trying to rescue survivors.  It was quite haunting.  So tomorrow at 10:37 PDT please remember this community.