http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/ Catskill Merino Newsletter Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:55:07 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/129 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/129 Saturday at market was warm with a high of 43, good weather for selling wool. My cell phone rang about 1 PM; it was Clara back at the farm telling me that Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:59:14 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/128 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/128 Friday, thirty-one hours after Poem was lost she was found, alive and well, where she was lost. Unknowingly I fenced her in with the rams; the orchard grass Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:51:03 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/127 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/127 I walked the quarter mile back to Poem's kennel and unplugged the fence charger on the way. I leashed her and we went back to where the rams and cows were Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:56:54 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/126 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/126 Poem is home. I found her where I lost her. She didn't run off, I did. The Thursday morning of her 'disappearance', I was moving the ram flock to a new Sat, 07 Jul 2007 01:33:04 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/125 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/125 but very hungry. Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:48:39 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/124 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/124 Thursday morning Poem was tied to a fence post--she broke free and ran away. My fault--I tied her there and I should have tied her better. Dogs never let you Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:14:02 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/123 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/123 LOOSE CANONS Poem has Paris Hilton eyes. Poor Poem, I love her anyway. I suspect that Paris Hilton is George Bush in drag-they have the same eyes-for the Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:12:17 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/122 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/122 The day opened slowly like a sleepy eye. In the dim green dawn nothing distinct was visible in the field before the doorway of the weathered red shed where I Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:49:18 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/121 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/121 HOT LAMB SAUSAGES MERGUEZ is a spicy lamb sausage from Morocco with crushed red pepper, cayenne, black pepper, minced garlic and cinnamon. Good with Fri, 01 Jun 2007 13:04:35 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/120 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/120 The commonplace can be adventurous. My trip to Brooklyn for loomi, the Middle Eastern spice of salted and sun blackened limes from which I want to make a lamb Tue, 22 May 2007 23:31:52 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/119 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/119 The Search for Loomi Now that I'm designing lamb sausages, please don't assume that little Poem has ended up as hot dogs. I'm not that Brooklyn; besides I Wed, 16 May 2007 14:36:30 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/118 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/118 I accept responsibility. It was I who left an untutored dog near sheep. It was I who left the truck window down from which she leapt. I was at fault, not Fri, 11 May 2007 11:29:38 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/117 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/117 The play of light was dramatic. The warm, late afternoon sun slanted through the trees as I steered around the potholes on the dirt road leading to the farm. Thu, 03 May 2007 12:15:24 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/116 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/116 Poem and I are more free verse than sonnet, but we're learning to rhyme. Our work is rhythmic, day in day out, by trial and error. I teach her to come and to Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:16:13 GMT Eugene Wyatt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/115 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/catskill-merino-newsletter/message/115 Juliet's reason sedates Romeo, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Over Romeo's slumbering body I called