Ukelele And Umeko

Ukelele is black and a boy so more lamb chops in the fall but Umeko is female and white. Born last night, they are both happy and healthy wee lambies. Queen who is a pregnant ewe tried to steal them from Fanny, who is the mom, so we had quite a hassle trying to get her to leave Fanny and her babies alone. We finally had to put her in the barn with her babies last night so that Queen would leave her alone. Queen, I expect will have to wait a day or two till her own baby comes along but the mothering instinct is certainly strong in her.

I have been a busy lady over the last few days. On Thursday I went to our community school for the historical fair. I was demonstrating spinning and weaving. The kids, as you can see, were more than interested and all day I had small groups of kids coming by for an opportunity to look at, touch and feel, and learn about all things fibre. By the end of the day there was quite a line up to try my hand cards and learn how to card yarn... a lot of the kids wanted to try turning my spinning wheel but I had brought my old wheel along for them to see and it is not east to treddle so I felt that I wouldn't let them try treddling. I showed them different kinds of wool fleece and I showed them different kinds of spindles. It really was quite awesome. At one point Daughter #2 came through with a little girl from kindergarten and stopped and had a chance to have a little look too. It was nice to see my girl in her element teaching the little girl about what I was doing. I was really proud of how nice and thoughtful she was of the little kids.... even one of the teachers commented on how good she is with the little kids. (er hem, I taught them everything I know : )

Yesterday I took a drive south for an hour to do a little grocery shopping for fruit and veg that was actually edible. Our grocery store here in town never seems to have top quality produce. It was nice last night to eat salad for supper that didn't have brown tips on the leaves of the lettuce that needed to be removed. It was nice to get good red peppers and tomatoes that were not starting to shrivel. I even bought black berries and raspberries. Ahhh delicious!

Today we are going to FSJ to have a look at a dog that Hubby is interested in. The dog that I mentioned the other day is gone to someone else but we will see if this one would be ok. I also will pick up blades for my shears since I need blades for shearing and shearing season is upon us. Hubby and I talked about the fact that shearing time is here and I need supplies for that so that is another job to be done.

I had better get back to getting ready to go because everyone else is almost ready and once again I am not. I'll post pictures of Ukelele and Umeko tomorrow.