For Mother's Day this year Rob took us to the Shepherd's Harvest Sheep and Wool Festival featuring Llama Magic. It. Was. Awesome! Here's just s glimpse of what we saw:
This gnarly old guy is a Merino Sheep. You know that warm yet inexpensive sweater you have? It came from him.
These are the fat tailed Karakul Sheep. Don't you just want to run your fingers through their wool? They were gorgeous.
Leichesters. A good all around sheep.
This Llama looks like a giraffe! Notice how his body is definitely spotted, but the unshorn parts of him looks more splotchy? I think it's pretty cool.
Alpacas! Aren't they gorgeous? I seriously want one.
These Llamas had the weirdest shave job. It really looked like their necks were going to break at any minute. And those puff-ball heads! Crazy.
I missed the shot where Beatrice had her head all jammed up against the bars trying to get her arm just a little further into the pen to pet this guy. All she asked all day was when could she pet the animals!
This Llama was about to get a new home. His soon-to-be owner was taking him out for a walk. He was pretty nervous about the crowd of little kids around him dying to get a pet and he kept dancing into people. Beatrice was a bit braver than Maggie and would have stood there all day watching him. She loves Llamas, too.
What could be better than petting an Angora Bunny? Seriously? Nothing. I think Mr. Silky has been bested. I wanted to curl up and take a nap on this rabbit!
At the end of the day I restrained myself to one skein of llama yarn, a pair of llama socks, and a toy llama for Beatrice. Maggie wanted a bag of kettle corn - which was awesome! At one booth as I was petting the yarn a woman asked the seller if the yarn was dyed. He said, no that is the natural color of the wool. Then he said that particular yarn was a combination of two of his llamas and he called them by name! Can you imagine? If I'd been buying that skein I would have written down the llama's names and called whatever I knit from it by their names. A scarf named Lucy or a pair of socks named Spotty and Plumb. It's so awesome that I can't even describe it!
One day we'll live on a much bigger piece of property and it'll have a barn and a large fenced in pasture and I'll finally own a llama, and a drum carder, and a spinning wheel. And then all of my clothes will be named after my llama who supplied them to me!!
I have a little bit of an infatuation going on right now. I can't wait for next year's festival! I'm going to start saving for it now!!!
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