Farm Friends Friday - A Little On The Top

This is Woolliam. You can tell it's Woolliam by the spots on his feet and his extra long dreadlocks.







Woolliam knows he has cool hair.







And this is how he keeps it that way. The shearers leave a top knot on all the Cotswolds. Rebecca Boone has cool hair too. We do this just for fun. I think I learned that was a traditional Cotswold 'do - maybe for showing - when we got our first Cotswold, Buddy.







When Saint Tim got home from the big city Wednesday night, he asked "Which sheep was the last to get sheared?" Seems like an odd question, but not really.



We love all our sheep dearly, but we know that Petunia's going to be bad (only to shear), Peabody is an Idiot (yes, with a capitol I) and Keebler (as he's Not A Sheep) is going to demand special treatment...which means he's usually last.



I also learned on my three day shearing binge that the last sheep is always called Hope. As in "looking for hope", "hope that's the last one", "hope you can get up in the morning and do it all over again"...



Keebler's Hoping we'll quit yakkin' about how silly he is in time to remind Don to leave his top knot.







D'oh!



It's okay, baby. The only difference between a bad hair cut and a good hair cut is three days. At least that's what I tell Saint Tim when I butcher cut his hair. He says things like "The girls at Supercuts don't laugh like that when they cut my hair."







Don kindly sharpened all my blades (that I'm hoping I'll not have to use for a long time ;-) before he left. Here's yet another interesting tip I learned from them. Store your clipper blades in flour. Flour draws the moisture off them and keeps them from rusting.



They are coming back to town to demonstrate shearing for the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival in May (after a cool sounding shearing gig out in Wyoming). Offering blade sharpening as well might be a good idea too!



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