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Awwwwwww ;)

Thanks for the pictures!

It's finally beginning to thaw here too. I knew we were going to pay for that nice warm beginning.

That's an impressive loom you've got, too.

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Actually, I have three looms, but that one is the most recently acquired and largest. I got a bargain on it used, it's an old Norwood from the days when they were still made in Michigan from solid cherry. Now they are made in Finland from birch, which just isn't the same. Also they're metric. ;p Mine is solid American. I love it. Solid, smooth operating, easy to set up, and handles very light fabrics and fine thread well, better than my others.

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songdogmi.livejournal.com

What a little cutie. :) But is Jetta out of her mind to bring forth a lamb in this weather? What if there were no warming lamps?

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Not a problem usually. We've had lambs born when the temperature was -10F or lower without any problem. As long as they aren't out in wind chill, and do get to nurse regularly, they get along just fine. Keep in mind the fact that they are born with heavy wool sweaters on, the kind that retain warmth even when wet.

Lambs that get seriously chilled may even survive if they are warmed and fed soon enough. This is a problem if the mother rejects them or for some reason dies. We've never had that happen, but our friend and neighbor with the larger flock gets it occasionally. She had an abandoned lamb last spring in cold weather, and found it only because she had a troop of girl scouts to visit. She was pointing out for them the lamb that had been born the day before, which was doing well, when one said "What about that lamb over there?"

What? She thought there was only one. But sure enough, there was one lying in a corner of the pen all by itself. At first she thought it was dead, but it was still breathing. She brought it in the house, got it warm, and fed it with a bottle. It lived. I saw it the afternoon of the same day she found it, and it was already standing and crying for food and attention.

Oh. And the temperature that day was well below zero.

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Do you have any looms with a view?

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Ouch. >.

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Did you get your finger caught in the spinner?

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Weave got to stop spinning more yarns on this thread. I promise, I'm just going to shuttle up now.

Do ewe promise too?

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Don't tempt me, or you'll both be spending 30 days in the punitentiary.

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I wooldn't want to give the needle to such a close knit group so I shall cotton on to your words and Baaah myself from bleating on this topic.

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Now that was just a sheep shot; lambasting me like that. I don't think I've ever herd such a thing. Perhaps you should pause and ruminate on your verbal ram-paging.

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*thinks then just pokes his tongue out at you* XD

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Wheee! I call a truce :)

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I'll get the lupine league onto you woof :P

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Eep! Remind me never to compete with you in a pun competition. You're too good at it.

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I have my days ;0)

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calydor.livejournal.com

That looks like a window behind the loom, so yes ... it has a view.

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My room has a window and all I see is a Brick wall of the neighbours house about 2 metres away :P

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Remember, I live in the country. Every window has a view. The nearest neighbor's house is a couple hundred meters away. ;p

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true but you might have had a tree or a farm type building there ;)

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I count those as views, though.

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Two. The view is the one shown in the picture right above the loom at the moment. Another is in my computer room/office, and the view looks west across the creek. The third is in the barn loft, with no view.

In our old house, my loom was in a second floor room with a plate glass window that looked west over the pine trees and right into the sunset. I loved that except that squirrels used to come sit on the window sill and stare at me while I was working.

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What's wrong with squirrels watching you? Is this about getting squirrels tangled into your mane?

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No, it's about idle rodents staring at me.

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Aww I thought that was rather cute, squirrels watching a horse at a loom :)

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zenicurean.livejournal.com

So, it's like a black sheep of the family?

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One of several. Her mom was born black but turned gray by age two. We have three other black sheep and three white ones.

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avon-deer.livejournal.com

Hope your first lamb does ok. :)

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Thanks. I'm sure she'll be fine. Once they get up and start nursing, we've had no problems with them. They just grow then.

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wolfgrowl.livejournal.com

Have to say it! Awwwwwww.

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They are amazingly cute when they're tiny like that. Then they get to be about six months old and start butting you when you don't expect it and they aren't so cute any more.

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Awr!

Gary is so cute!

Okay um..no.

But if you let her get big...

Black sheep black sheep have you any wool?

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Sorry Gary. XD

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Actually, he is cute except when he's in a really bad mood.

In spite of having several "black" sheep, really black wool is scarce. When it is washed and prepared, it often turns out to be dark brown instead. They also tend to turn "prematurely" gray, as this one's mother did. (That's a gene called "dilution" that makes any color fade as the animal ages. The same, I think, as makes Percheron horses turn gray... they are all black at birth, a few stay black, most turn gray.)

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*gives Gary a Gin and Tonic and then a
plate of pasta. Yes, carbs.*

If the wool turns prematurely gray...

You better hurry.

^_^

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Um, not the gin and tonic. He's a cheap date, he'll pass out from that.

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*gives Gary some pasta and takes him to a mosh pi -*

Okay, now I'm being silly. Even /I/ don't go
to mosh pits.

Usually.

XD

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alaskawolf.livejournal.com

the little Lamb is adroable :) and your place is very cozy looking too

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