We have a new shearer this year, Jim McRae, our longtime shearer, has retired, his helper Liz, who has shorn with Jim all of her life, is coming a week from Friday. The sheep look great, they will love being shorn as it gets warm and Maria will love skirting the wool (one of our favorite farm chores) and taking them to the Vermont Fiber Mill to be turned into roving and yarn. We shear  twice a year, in the Spring and late Fall. Zelda is getting too old for much shearing, she gets shorn once a year. The four rescue Romneys have turned out to be beautiful wool givers.

In this photo, Fate is running  strong and nothing, Red is behind the sheep, moving them to me and my camera.