Our seeds arrived today from the Seed Savers Exchange. Two of my co-workers and I ordered together. I'm buying my seed starting supplies this weekend, then I'll be counting down the days until I can start the peppers. Woot!
I've had some luck on my wool search. Aphelion clued me in to Forestfibres on ebay (Thanks, Aphelion!) and I hit pay dirt. Forestfibres sells wool from rare sheep, among other things. I have some washed fleece winging it's way to me from England. It's the next best thing to a wool tour. This has gotten me thinking about my specimen book and it's occurred to me I could make several books just as easily as I could make one. It's possible that I will make several to sell but there are some issues I'd need to work out first. (1) My specimen book will likely be a continuous work in progress which means any copy I sell will inevitably be incomplete. I'll have to determine what breeds will be included in each book that I sell. (2) The re-design of each page will include space for a photo of each breed. Copying pictures off the Net, even if it wasn't a copyright infringement, which it is, won't work because the resolution is too low and copies will poor. This means I'll have to either take the pictures myself or ask if someone has a photo of each breed and can I use it. I hope to get sheep pictures at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival this spring. Oh, yeah! Figuring out the logistics of putting together and selling copies of my specimen book will be a fun exercise. I wish my sister lived closer so she could help me brainstorm ideas. I also wish I had Pagemaker or some other page layout program so I could organize my page design more efficiently. Another puzzle to solve.
These photos are all from the Library of Congress' Flickr page. Check it out!
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