[Ag-eq] Sheep

[dogwood farm]

Galway is also very well known for the "Galway shalls".  I would love
to to have one or have a simple pattern to start with.

Susan
dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com

On 8/15/18, Jewel via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> When Deslie, my sister was touring Ireland:  it was a package tour, not a
> self-contained one, so her
> mode of travel was by the tour company bus, she saw lots of rolls of balage
> in the paddocks, but not
> a single farm animal to eat it.  I suggested that, perhaps, given all the
> balage, the animals were
> kept in barns, but she said that, from the road, there were no large barns
> to be seen, so where the
> sheep/cows were defies the, or mine anyway, imagination.
> On the last day of the tour, she did see a bunch of about a dozen sheep
> being escorted down the lane
> by a dog;  that was the first, and last, sight she got of farmlife as it is
> in Ireland!  might even
> have been on one of the western isles of Scotland!
> Heere in New Zealand, it is not uncommon for a motorist to be stopped or
> have to edge his way
> through, or around, flocks of sheep, numbering in the hundreds, being herded
> along by no more than a
> couple of dogs and the shepherd puttering along on his farm bike!
>
>         Jewel  --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Tracy Carcione via Ag-eq" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 16 2018 12:35 AM
> To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Sheep
>
> Susan, you should!  We went to Galway last year, and it was our favorite
> place.  The town center is full of pubs with the traditional music I love,
> and the park in the center has lots of people strolling, making music, and
> having fun.  Galway is also known for those beautiful knitted fisherman's
> sweaters.  And you can take public transit right to the beach.
> Tracy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of dogwood farm via
> Ag-eq
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 3:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Sheep
>
> Oh what a wonderful sounding trip.  I would love to go to Galway on
> the western coast.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm62 at gmail.com
>
> On 8/13/18, Nella Foster via Ag-eq <ag-eq at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Tracy:
>>
>> What a great trip.
>>
>> I would love to see where and how the fabric is made.
>>
>> Nella
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
>> via Ag-eq
>> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2018 11:14 AM
>> To: 'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'
>> Cc: Tracy Carcione
>> Subject: [Ag-eq] Sheep
>>
>> We just returned from a trip to Ireland, which was fantastic.
>>
>> I heard many flocks of sheep over there.  One was on an estate about a
>> quarter mile from town.  Or we'd stop at a service station for a pee
> break,
>> and there would be sheep baaing away not far off.
>>
>> I learned that, because Ireland is a rainy place, the wool is coarse, so,
>> to
>> make something out of it that isn't scratchy, it is mixed with softer
> wools
>> from Australia and New Zealand.  We took a tour of a small wool mill.  We
>> felt the different kinds of fiber, then saw how they were woven into
>> fabric.
>> It was interesting.
>>
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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