January 20th, 2008
Diary Of A Handspinner-my Life As I Spin It
It Started Simple Enough…
In early March, 2005, my husband and I closed on our new home, a three bedroom, two bath on 5.6 acres in the country. My husband could finally have a horse or two and we could bottle feed baby bulls without complaints from neighbors we had in town. Yes, that’s right. We were living inside city limits with a mini farm in the back yard. I found a buyer for the house in town; life was good. My baby chicks and ducks that were raised in the bathtub were grown and in a coop. I decided I needed some animals for myself as well, couldn’t let him have all the fun. I saw an ad in the local paper for sheep. “What the heck”, I said, and called the number. The seller had brought her starter flock from New Hampshire to New Mexico via a friend, and now that she decided to move back after ten years, she had no way to take the sheep on the move.