Sheepie Preview…
September 15, 2007
More photos coming later…
This is just a preview of the Heritage Harvest Festival in Dryden, MI.
Due to some confusion Danielle and I attended the festival today instead of with friends tomorrow, but that’s okay. It was really nifty. There was a good bit of farm equipment, sawmills, animals, steam-roasted corn on the cob, trails to wander on, and stuff like that.
Anyway, more later. For now you get a really cute, freshly shorn sheepie. (By a multi-generation shearer who seemed to really care for her animals and made things from their wool.)
I haven’t been to the Harvest Festival in years. Growing up in Dryden, that was something my parents made sure we went to every fall. I need to make a trip out to Seven Ponds soon.
Oh really? I didn’t know you grew up there… We didn’t know what to expect, but it was a really nifty surprise. Just fun, nice things to walk around and look at.
Mom mom gave a wool spinning demonstration there yesterday. =)
That was your mom? She was right next to where we were standing watching the woman shearing sheep. I remember hearing your mom talking about alpaca, different types of sheep, dying with Kool-Aid, things like that. Oh, and pedaling the wheel with one shoe off.
That’s really nifty. :)
If she had shortish blond hair and looked fairly young, that was indeed my mom. Haha, the shoe thing wouldn’t surprise me!
I… Think so… I don’t remember what people look like as much as what they were doing and the little details, though. :(
Sorry… can’t help myself:
Roasting is a cooking method that utilizes dry heat…
I’m sure they called it “steam-roasted” there, but that just doesn’t make any sense at all. Roasting is dry, steaming is wet.
Hehe, understandable. That’s true… I don’t remember exactly what they called it. Since the steam was passed directly over the corn, it definitely wasn’t roasted. It was impressive how it was done, though.
Awwww, that’s a cute sheep.