Honestly, the festival was a bit of a blur. The weather leading up to it was mid summer hot and humid. The weather the first day was mid summer hot and humid. You know, being the "delicate flower" that I am, how well that all went. Whining. So Much Whining. I'd like to add one of my irritating winking faces...but I can't.
The weather wasn't quite as bad as the earlier in the week forecast, which was 87 and 88. That's hot, especially under a tent. I decided to not bring the normal "huggable" sheep for the Hug a Sheep feature. Not that they are that old, but they are big, heavy sheep and heat is hard on them. And me. (Please. Stop with the whining. Seriously.)
That left the young sheep. They were bottle lambs. That should make them even more huggable, right? Yeah...only if you are me :-/. Still, most of them were at least somewhat collar trained, so we could "force" them to be friendly to other people ;-). Among the group, I knew Liddy would be the weakest link. Heck, Liddy is too persnickety to talk to me some days.
Guess who laid down in the front of the booth all weekend and let every kid, young and old, pat her, pet her, poke her, feel her ears, squeal (very loudly) with delight... Liddy. And when I realized what was going on, I wasn't at all surprised. There are at least two more really amazing Liddy stories I have to share but just haven't had the energy/brain power to put the post together. We are among something special here and I am not exaggerating.
I will get them put down "on paper" as soon as I can. My idea was to write up several short stories about the sheep on our farm (sort of a precursor to a book) while I was raising Biscuit. Sort of like knitting the Purbeck Shawl with Liddy when she was a baby. It hasn't happened. Yet. I think I might be getting too old to raise these bottle lambs. It's not for the faint of heart, for sure.
So back to the festival. As always, once it got going, I was glad I was there. I made several new friends and put some faces and names together for some folks I felt were already old friends. Thanks for stopping by and introducing yourselves!
Somehow I didn't take a single picture of the booth. At the show where I completely changed up the set up to try and make it a little less labor intensive to set up and tear down (!). It worked well. Hope I can remember how we did it (!). Don't ask me what I was thinking by not taking pictures (!). Not thinking.
Much of the wool is gone, but there are at least three fleeces left that I just can't believe are still here. I'll post them to the Farm Shop as soon as possible. I probably have some other things to update with the shop as well. I need to get on that and start being a little more "professional".
Lots of things to do. But Biscuit comes first. And maybe a nap :-o.
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