We went to pick up the yarn Maria sent to Maple View Farm in Vermont to be cleaned and made into skeins for sale. Maria has about 20 skeins (two bumps of roving) and she is figuring out how to price them and who gets them. Details on her website. This was a neat thing to do. I find this a wonderful thing to do with animals. It is very satisfying, we put coats on the sheep to keep the wool clean, and many people seem to want yarn from Bedlam Farm. It is expensive to maintain sheep and care for them, and Maria will  never come to come close to earning that back on the sale of some skeins. But we both love that the wood from our sheep will go out into the world as Bedlam Farm wool and metamorphisize into scarves, mittens, sweaters. Go Zelda and the crews. Sometimes it is necessary for animals to be killed on a farm, this feels better to me, something very meaningful and exciting.