Saturday afternoon

I just finished hand shearing a sheep on a stand. I used to raise a few sheep, but now just have five geriatric sheep to keep the weeds down in the pasture, provide manure and, well, they are pretty.

At this new place, we don't have a wooden floor for shearing, and with only five sheep I feel really guilty calling a shearer, and it would be expensive. So, I'm trying to do them on a stand. I just did the dark ewe on the left. Missed that spot under the throat.

I still need to do the bellies, but will wait until I have the heavy fleece off all of them. I'm really late shearing. Luckily, we've had a very cool spring. Hard on the tomatos, but good for people who procrastinate on getting the shearing done.