The Suint Bath

Earlier this week I collected two large sacks of sheep fleece. I had asked the shepherd to call me when he was shearing as I wanted to see how it was done. Either it was lost in translation or he didn't want an audience. When Steve met him by chance at the post office early one morning he said the fleece was ready for me. As you can see the inspectors are giving it the once over before anything can be done with it. This year there appears to be less lanolin in the wool, less vegetable matter stuck in it too - which is good! The poo is still there it comes with it free so I can't complain. The poo ends up in the compost so nothing is wasted! The last time I cleaned this much fleece it was dire. It took 4 or 5 washes with detergent and then several rinses. And because we have an ecological waste system I tried to spread the waste water around the finca. It was really hard work and it used so much water I wasn't looking forward to doing it again.