I'm having a difficult time finding words to start this post. So much has happened in three short days. I met many wonderful people and made some new friends. So many beautiful sheep and wonderful people (great meeting you
Michelle!) were gathered in such a small space I found it impossible to meet them all in one weekend.
I'll start with the sheep.
This little Romeldale ram lamb was found in the pasture with his Mom by Laura while she was tending some of Corys ewes, opps, so he became the mascot. More Romeldale sheep at the show.
Friday morning Becky and I even helped show a few sheep for a breeder who needed some more hands.
Blue Face Leicester sheep. I think these are
Jared's.
Churro's
Jacob's- his horns are nice but look at that fleece. (click to make bigger)
Gotland's
Lincoln's
Wensleydales-these sheep just have to live in the house to keep such nice fleece!
Lets not forget the Shetland sheep. There were large numbers of Shetlands at BSG this year. Too many to just look at so I brought two ewe lambs back to Nevada with me! The two tone ewe in the back comes from Quintin Kreth. Thunderhead Argentina is her name. She is a gulmoget with black on her front and under that light grey is a darker shaela coloring. Very unusual coloring and a soft silky fleece.
Argentina needed a traveling and quarantine friend so this little brown katmoget ewe with a soft silky fleece, came with. She is from White Oak Shetlands, Wally Rutledge, she was in a pen right next to
Garretts new ewe!
I've been thinking of naming the katmoget ewe Miryha after an awesome young lady (www.blarney.com) running a booth with Lori Lawson, Capistrano Fiber Arts Etsy Store, with the most beautiful dyed fiber and yarn. I could not get enough of their booth. I'd look and look at the other vendors around BSG then continue to come back to their booth to buy more roving.
At the end of the weekend I had six braids of roving from "Capistrano Fiber".
A few pounds of Romeldale fleece from Becky's purchases. We traded fiber for fiber.
And one of
Laura's fabulous hats, hand made for me from Booger my wethers fleece. The grey in the hat is his fiber.
It was a wonderful trip. I only regret that I didn't find
Kathy,
Tina and
Garrett before they left. Maybe next time because I plan on doing this again!
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