Sarah Pope

Some days whatever gets the whole family through till bedtime alive is enough. Hope you feel better soon!

Maybe I’ll see you Sunday at Ritual Dyes! Sacred Sheep Festival in November is a great event, too.

And women still need those advanced degrees to compete for jobs. And we still have to listen to (mostly white) men whine about “their” jobs being “taken” by people who work harder and smarter.

Holding some skeins of yarn in the paddock with the sheep that grew them; border collie by the gate hoping his services might be required.

Fresh batch of yarns from the mill for the Rose City Yarn Crawl, sunshine breaking through the clouds, lambs due in three weeks… so many things are bad but so many other things are good. Letting the good stuff brace me up for all the work and I hope you can do the same.

Monobob is a very silly name for a sport but it was a great day for badass moms in their forties! So much respect.

USA PNW, English, fire truck or fire engine. Except I am married to a fire fighter and so now I know that some engines are not engines but tenders or ladders or brush rigs, etc. I cannot necessarily tell you which is which.

I kept checking back for the final installments and just have to say that you’ve really added a special something to the last 48 hours of my life. 😂 Thank you for this brilliant piece of storytelling.

My great-uncle who lived in the Bordeaux region named his dog Taxi specifically to amuse or confound his neighbors when he was out at night walking amongst the vines and calling his pooch back.

Nutters and spares over here, too. And/or pawns of colonialism.

Large black cat in an undersized cardboard box. One Teasel > eight cans of beans.

This loaf is over proved.

These are all so apropos. 😂 I require a tug.

Yes please! I’ll take one of these bills in my state!

Greg Bovino Comes Up Short.

I live on San Juan Island and yesterday I was trying to explain to my kids about this preposterous Greenland situation. My son’s response was, “Time to shoot another pig!” Some of us locals would like a do-over with Kaiser Wilhelm. 🍁

Happy birthday, Kristen!

Winter sunset over the straits between the big firs.

The year is drawing down and we are peacing out with hikes and baking and sleeping in as much as possible.

We have the work version that was briefly available and it’s been great as a farm truck. We live on an island so the range is never a problem, and recharging when we need to go to the city has been easy. It handles really well in mud and snow because of the weight distribution, too.

Make planes smell more like locker rooms. Solid idea. 🫡

10pm, waiting for the pumpkin to roast for tomorrow’s pie… might as well go surprise the sheep with a treat. My girl Licorice LOVES pumpkin guts.

Small black cat ascending a heap of plastic bags stuffed with freshly shorn wool, because cats can’t get enough of raw fleece and also she wants ups.

Three bags full and a pocket panther.

Here are some sweet little ewes lined up for chin rubs, blissfully unbothered by the demise of the CDC, the president’s call to execute congresspeople, Elon’s salary surpassing that of every elementary teacher in the US, or the tonnage of other flaming garbage in our country right now. Lucky girls.

I’m wondering if fingering didn’t mean then what it means now. Gauge information was a strong addition to knitting patterns!

A sheepkeeper in a plaid shirt, glasses, and a wool felt brimmed hat carrying a roll of electric netting into a dry August field and possibly thinking of stamping every prong into JFK Jr’s mummified backside.

Another day moving electronet so my sheep can eat all this GF pizza crust pasture and leave it a little better than they found it. Everybody go forth and dump some manure somewhere that needs it. This is partly a post about farming.

But the boxes are going to be So Good.

Maybe you need to wrap her up in a snug little blanket like a wee rat burrito. And take pictures for the internet, obviously.

A brown llama coming to inquire about your intentions with his flock of sheep.

Boop.

Definitely! I get to re-release it in September this year.

Hope the healing is a smooth ride!

That would be the greatest wedding ever. 😆 Cousins should absolutely let Lola be Lola on this one.

I have a pup who does this, too. Happy birthday, Jackson!