Progress...

I am sitting on the deck, finishing my lunch before diving into the wool again.

It is another beautiful day. I am sitting in the sun, drying laundry on the clothesline, and the dogs and cat are enjoying it also. At one point, the 3 of them were all laying together in the same sunbeam, but when I got up to get the camera they scattered.

I got a much later start today than yesterday. I am a bit sore in the legs and hips so while I drank coffee, I used the heating pad. Naturally, the dogs did not allow me to rest very long and insisted I go outside. Brandi wandered off and while I was hanging the towels on the line, I could hear a child screaming from the direction of the road. Afraid of what I would find, I grabbed Brandi's lease and headed to the front yard to find my neighbor calling Brandi and leading her back into my yard. Turns out his child was protesting the fact that they took the dog away from her, not in terror! I was relieved but after I had to chase her down again, I tied her to the tree in the back yard. She grumbled a bit, but then settled down nicely.

I separated the wool into 3 piles. I tried to put a sheep in each bag, but I had a hard time with the brown/black wool so I just did my best. The white was a no brainer because there was only one white sheep. I did find some white and shades of brown in the brown and recalled that one of the sheep had a white foot. I will have to find out how much white was on them, just for the record. :)

The wool I washed yesterday is drying in the sun and breezes. Out of respect for the fleece donor (LC Guy), and because the object of this endevour was to hand process the wool in the spirit of self sustaining, I am trying not to waste any part of the fleece. Anything that falls to the deck, straw and the smaller bits of wool, is swept up and saved. I will hang it in the yard with my yarn scraps for the birds to build nests.

Okay, enough talk. I need to get back to work. I am going to start with the white fleece first.