[Jacob-list] Home again!

[Linda]

Just got home myself. What a wonderful AGM!

Linda - who was munching on Betty's cookies all the way to Asheville :-)

Betty Berlenbach wrote:

> I was a little trepidacious driving 7 hours home from the AGM on 

> Sunday with a little wether (buddy system) and a BIG horned four 

> horned ram I bought from Cheryl Terrano who had delivered him to the 

> AGM on Friday in my little pick up truck. Luckily, it was raining 

> which cut way down on reflections in windows which could have been 

> perceived by said ram as a competitor. And also luckily, this big guy, 

> swollen nose and all (I guess West Virginia is ahead of us in the 

> "let's go breed" department), was a pussy cat, a very well behaved 

> boy, who alternately ate good second cut hay and sat to chat with the 

> little guy, who also ate a lot.  I arrived home very tired from a very 

> stimulating AGM, filled with back to back workshops, presented by 

> Jacob breeders: fascinating talks on fleece by Peg Bostwick and Linda 

> Bjarkman, projecting horns and fleece style by Karen Lobb (who keeps 

> meticulous records of all her sheep and their developing horns and 

> fleeces, apparently), Ingrid Painter presenting a draft of a new, very 

> helpful guidebook to selecting registerable jacobs.  In addition, 

> there was a showing of Edd Bissell's famous video...the one in which 

> he refers to Maizie Hescock as "Amazin' Maizie".  (Can't duplicate his 

> wonderful accent in print!).  It's my favorite line of the whole video 

> and I wait for it every time I see the video.  In addition, there was 

> a presentation I skipped on pasture improvement and fencing 

> improvement with government help given by a woman involved in the 

> government end of things.  Instead, I went to look at the pens and 

> pens of jacob sheep in the animal barn...and there were MANY!  More 

> than I've ever seen in one place.  Gorgeous lambs and yearlings and 

> aged ewes and rams...quite a collection from all over the country.  I 

> missed the show Friday night, but heard Ingrid did an incredible job 

> at judging and instructing along the way. She very cleverly asked that 

> no one show their own sheep, since she knew so many of the 

> participants.  Meals were delicious, thanks to Sue Unzicker and Bob 

> May.  What a lot of work went into this event, among the best I've 

> ever attended.  I'm sorry you all couldn't get to it.  Although, if 

> we'd all been there, I'm not sure where we would have put all the 

> sheep!  Thanks to all those whose hard work made this a banner AGM year!

>  Betty, in Vermont,who now has a blog, thanks to help from Walter and 

> Linda.  See Betty's blog at http://sheepwoman.wordpress.com.

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