Baa baa black sheep have you any wool?

Yes!  I am being inundated with offers of fleeces - not that I'm complaining, I hasten to add, but I am running out of space.  Anyway, how could I possibly resist Lincoln Longwool, Wensleydale, Blue Faced Leicester and Hebridean, to say nothing of the Shetland, Jacob and Teeswater fleeces?  At the moment I have several hundred kilos of wool in various states, just waiting to be felted, spun and/or woven.  I have to confess, I'm in heaven!
Anyway, this is a good opportunity for a long overdue sheep photo to revive the Sheep of the Month spot.

In the foreground is Ziggy, my beautiful Wensleydale, and standing next to him is Jacob's still unnamed twin brother (always referred to as Jacob's Brother, which, I suppose, is a name of sorts), who looks remarkably similar to Ziggy, but is, in fact a Teeswater X Jacob.  Looking on is Bouncy, a Shetland named by my children when they were too young to know any better.

As if I didn't have enough wool, I have also imported some from a farm in Finland for an article I'm writing.  It's Finnsheep wool, which I have used in the dim and distant past, but the article is about a specific farm and, before today, I hadn't used their wool.  I've only made a sample so far, but it seems very lovely.  Look at these five different natural shades.

The skies around my home are always stunning, particularly in the evenings.  This evening, when I went down to feed my sheep I actually remembered to take a camera, so for once I can share this with you.

Now, for the woolly-minded among you, just look at the crimp in that cloud to the left of the picture!
And here's my own home underneath this glorious sky.

I haven't even mentioned our newly fledged swallows and blackbirds, or the curlew who, for several evenings, sat and watched as we clipped sheep.  Sorry, no photographs of this - too busy and far too dirty.
But what an amazing planet this is.