So. You thought the excitement was pau, yeah? Not.
I had a dentist appointment yesterday; I have a fantastic dentist, but because I never had Novocaine when I was a kid (don’t ask me why), getting dental work done isn’t easy for me. But it had to be done, so I went out to my car. Oops. Flat tiyah. So I had to borrow Nolemana’s car and he said he’d call AAA while I was gone. Sounds, fine, yeah?
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Lest you folks think my life is all about sheep and llamas and Montana and Hawaiian kine stuffs, oh yeah, and knitting and spinning, I’m here to show you that it’s not. Seriously.
Last week our property manager let me know that our tenants had told him there were some vicious bees that attacked a salesman at our house. Bees? Or hornets? Yes, to quote someone on Ravelry, I am a foot soldier in the battle to end bee slander. There is a huge difference between bees, hornets, wasps, and yellow jackets. Bees are good; the others can be really nasty varmints. Continue reading
Ahahahaha! I totally forgot that I took some shearing videos!! U like see?? K’den!
No. Try wait. I didnʻt forget! I just wanted to make more shearing posts. Heh heh. (I also get one bridge in Arizona I could sell you.)
As Johnny said, “Now he looks like a show llama!”
Well, next it was Titus’ turn to get sheared. His horns made great handles for Johnny to use! And once Titus was lying down, he remained really calm and easy to shear. I always feel a little da kine, seeing those horns and male shearers’ anatomy in such close proximity. But Johnny is really good at what he does, and everything went without a snag. (Pun intended.)
Well, between the two of them, Danny and Johnny encouraged Rayado over to the fence outside the barn. Nolemana had set things up so that the shearing could be inside, but it was hot in there, and Johnny could shear near a tree. Ricky and Miss B looked on with amusement.
We’ve had some awesome shearers over the years like John and Eddie. They’ve both done terrific jobs for us; but the past couple of years our schedules haven’t been able to work out. So last fall, we got a new shearer named Johnny Vargas, and wow. He’s incredible. He sheared Paul and Titus in October, but suggested that we wait to shear Rayado till spring, because sheared llamas don’t do nearly as well as sheep during the cold winter months. Not that we had any last winter, but we had no way of knowing that then.
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A few weeks ago, I was sitting in a large room, waiting for my name to be called. I had my knitting with me, of course, and I was perfectly content to pass the time creating something pretty for a friend who’s going through a rough time right now.
Thankfully, the weather has cooled down. What a relief after so many days of unrelenting heat. When I first moved to da mainland, this one wahine said, “Oh, but you don’t feel the heat here like you do in Hawaiʻi!” Not.
Oh sure, Kona weather with no trades is miserable. But most days have the cooling trade winds to keep everything comfortable.
What a whirlwind of spinning! And more spinning! But ho da fun! This was my best tour ever, I think. I was Captain of one team, and Co-Captain of another one, which involved cheering on my teammates, responding to posts showing some pretty impressive spinning, and encouraging people who needed encouragement.
And in between, I got to spin! Housework? What’s that? Laundry? Well, I did have to have clean clothes. I also had to put in a lot of working hours. And posting my photos did take a lot of time; gettum off the phone, crop if needed, re-save them, upload to Ravelry. That was pretty time-consuming, too. And somehow in there I managed to cook dinners and make zucchini bread. Continue reading
Today is a sad day for me after all the excitement of Tour de Fleece. One of our two Jacob sheep hasn’t been doing well; for the past two days he’s gotten himself all tangled up in blackberry thickets and wouldn’t come out. Our angel helpers, Danny and Joan, along with Nolemana, had to take clippers and clip away the thorny branches from around him. Now I wonder if Paul knew his time had come and was trying to find a hiding place.
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