Here are the great photos that Al took of our shearing day on Saturday.
The shearing crew:
Here are the photos I took:
I prepared assorted foods from recipes I have collected and wanted to try. It was sort of an afternoon tea that we had after the shearing was completed.
Here are the 1800 chocolate tarts (really yummy).
Here are the baked lemon puddings.
Here are the Yorkshire tea cakes.
There was also Paul Hollywood’s ultimate sausage rolls,
cucumber sandwiches, 1747 Cheshire pork pies,
blueberry lime layer cake, Bakewell pudding,
and Banbury tarts (Grampa’s favorite),
The Earl Grey, lemon and blueberry cake and mini quiches didn’t really turn out well. I had 4 different types of tea as well.
Here are my photos of the sharing:
Diddley
Vanessa
Harlen’s pretty wool
Hodor
Jemima
Diddley and Denise
Eliz brought over some chickens for me. Here are Red Leghorn chickens, 3 roosters and 3 hens.
And 10 assorted chicks.
The sheep now sheared and back on the grass.
Apart from the sheep, a good time was had by all.
It is weird when you look at photos of sheep being sheared and you wonder which end is up and is it really a live sheep. 😉
That feast looks scrumptious. Am sure it took a lot of time to do all of that. What did you like best? Nice of you.
I wonder about calling it a “cabin” when there are blueprints. ;)hee Beautiful view.
Thanks Beth! I think I like the chocolate tarts the best. We have still called it the cabin after it burned because we weren’t sure what else to call it. Soon it will be a real cabin again.
That was a lot of shearing! How many sheep do you have?
I’m looking forward to seeing the new cabin. Is there an estimate of how long it will take to get it all finished?
Thanks for sharing all your interesting pictures!
We only gave 9 sheep left, from a max of 50. We are hoping to get the cabin built this summer. Fingers crossed.