A very sheepish weekend...

After seeing Leslie last Friday, M and I had a memorial service to attend (Anne, this is not the cousin I mentioned last Nov - J was in attendance but is radically changed after her stroke, nearly dying and being in the coma... she's home but not well). On the way to the service, M and I discussed our plans for the weekend - sheep, fleeces (I want a black rambouillet), sheep etc. The last part of the service had the shepherd's psalm (I don't recall the #) with a photo of a flock of sheep in a pasture on the big screen behind the pastor. You will forgive me if I tell you I buried my face in M's shoulder and shook with an inappropriate emotion (laughter rather then tears). The pastoral scene was too close to what we discussed we would do after the service (Estes Park Wool Market).

B and collies (and a cute yorkie) made it up to our house before midnight - driving through vicious thunderstorms.

Early Saturday morning, we headed out and realized "someone" had forgotten to grab the go-cups of coffee off our counter. Nothing for it but to stop at Starbucks for fuel. M went in, I stayed (crocheting on one of B's curtains - the motif one for her office++). M returned with a wicked smile and presented B and I with:

As we drove to Loveland (B in the backseat) we heard a snicker behind us. B had discovered her bear was in sheep's clothing. Therefore, she scored the first fleece of the day.

She also was the first to spot the bighorns in Big Thompson Canyon.

Of course she wondered how to get some of that fleece but we hastily headed back up the canyon before she had a chance to find out.

We should have bought some yak fiber.

We watched some fleece judging, some sheep judging and split 2 rambouillet fleeces - one black and one variegated white, brown, gray and black.

 

Of course, we had to visit Grayce (Plain and Fancy Wool) - I bought 10 skeins (blues, coral, winter suset) and B bought 7 (blues, greens, blacks).

Sunday morning, we wandered over to watch more sheep judging and alpaca obstacle course and sheep herding.

Definitely a fun weekend.

++ And I finished the column of motifs to add to the office curtain in time for B to take the curtain back home. Now I'm back to the curtain I was working on when I met Leslie - just a few more rows to make the curtain rod pocket and this baby goes into the hot water and hot dryer.

2 more windows to go...

Comments

[Joanne]

Thanks for taking us along! I appreciate all the sheep references--even if some of them were at a sad occasion. Meeting you was a really special part of Estes Park for me. I hope to be there again someday...although for now, I am concentrating mainly on packing stash, not acquiring...

[Leslie]

Glad you found some great things at the market! And wonderful pictures of the "Wild Fleece" on the hoof. (I thought the same thing about how to get some of the fiber from the elks wandering around in Estes Park!)

[cyndy]

LOVE the photos of the big horns in the Canyon!
And those Black Yaks are amazing--

So --did you score any black rambo?

[lynne s of oz]

I never managed to see big horns in the Rockies but I finally saw some (very briefly) at Zion NP.
Sounds like you did well at Estes this year!
My next up sister and I snickered through half of our father's funeral. Various people said things like "I remember the pressure of his hand" - funny cos a) he was a Freemason and b) both of us remember the pressure of his hand on our bottoms! LOL
I hope to get some more Colorado fleece this weekend, assuming I can walk after rolling my ankle. We still miss the place....

[Chris]

Why is it that with all the fleece I have here to play with, I am lusting after yours??? Must be all the great photos in this post.

[Sheepish Annie]

I do love a weekend with a theme. It makes it ever so much easier to plan...

Excellent photos! I've been spinning again after a few month's hiatus and this is very inspiring!

[Anne]

Black Pines fleece? Or someone else - they look gorgeous!