Busy Day

Today was a very busy day.  When I got up this morning, I fed the sheep (and the dog and cats) and then came into the house and started dyeing some Joy wool.  Last weekend I dyed some of her wool orange.  Between last night and today, I dyed some light blue, black cherry, and purple.  I dyed them all using Kool-aid.  It was very easy and the wool looks so yummy!  It smells yummy, too!  It was amazing to watch the water become clear as the kool-aid was soaked up by the wool.  Usually the orange would have been my favorite as it is one of my colors, but I think the purple turned out really cool.  I need to find the green kool-aid, though.  That will make it complete.  Then, I can blend the colors with a little firestar to give it some sparkle and then spin.

We also needed to clean out the sheep shed, so I took the opportunity to get some pictures of the ewes and lambs.

Joy - Telling me all her troubles.  It was her wool I dyed. 

Joy (in the back) and her Mom, Corina.  Notice the rainbow
on Joy's chest.  I didn't notice it until I saw the picture
on the computer.  It looks a bit like the dye job I did using
her wool.

This is four of our ewe lambs.  There is Bella (far left), Raina,
(brown in the back), Ewegenia (white), and Ewelanda
(light brown on the right).  Although they are all Romneys,
Raina is the only ewe lamb that is registered.   They wanted
to know what I was doing inside their shed since I wasn't feeding them.

Ewelanda is keeping cool in the shade.  She is one of our more skittish lambs.

Ewenice is keeping Bella company (or maybe the other way around
since Ewenice is another skittish lamb).  Ewenice is one of the twins that
Corina birthed this year.  Ewegenia (in the background) is also keeping
cool in the shade.

The lambs are getting so big.  They've grown so much since we got them in May and June.  We will not breed them this year.  They are all too young.  The oldest is only six months now.  So, we'll wait until next fall to breed them.  Just think, with Joy and Corina, we'll have seven ewes to breed.  That will be one (or two) happy rams!