[Jacob-list] vegetable matter

[Gillian Fuqua]

	Some of my girls get a lot of junk in their fleeces and others  
don't.  I'm with Juliet in her line of thinking.  I do some picking  
as I skirt.  Mostly what I do is leave the fleece sitting in the Dawn  
bath for a bit and the rinses and a lot of crud floats to the top.   
I  have an old screen door I use to dry fleece on and as I am walking  
around fluffing the fleece I pick out bits.  Leftover small bits come  
out as I tease it before I card it, when I spin it, and, like Juliet,  
when I wear it.  I am going to try Linda's dryer method as that is  
intriguing me.
	I am back from 5 days in Florida which was nice and sunny but  
definitely not the place for me.  It was good for me in my hip  
rehabbing to be someplace flat and warm.  I am back up in the barn  
regularly.  After three weeks of hauling water, my husband finally  
sees the need to fix the barn water, which has been out for two  
years.  Somehow he never thought it was that big a deal before and  
was thinking I was foolish to spend the money on repair.  Funny how  
that worked.....

Gillian