200 Miles Roundtrip for Sheep
Oct. 5th, 2025 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerToday we drove 200 miles round trip, out to the town of Dixon, California, for... Lambtown! It's a weekend fair of all things... sheep.
Up front there were vendors pavilions full of yarn spinners selling yarn, spinners, and knitting tools. Out back, where we spent most of our time, were county fair type demonstrations of sheep dogs and sheep shearing.
The sheep dog demonstrations were put on by an organization called Redwood Empire Sheep Dog Association. As one of the speakers described it, RESDA was founded when a few sheep herders were sitting around on a slow day and one said to the other, "My dog's better than your dog."
And the second sheep herder fired back, "Oh, yeah? Prove it."
Up front there were vendors pavilions full of yarn spinners selling yarn, spinners, and knitting tools. Out back, where we spent most of our time, were county fair type demonstrations of sheep dogs and sheep shearing.
The sheep dog demonstrations were put on by an organization called Redwood Empire Sheep Dog Association. As one of the speakers described it, RESDA was founded when a few sheep herders were sitting around on a slow day and one said to the other, "My dog's better than your dog."
And the second sheep herder fired back, "Oh, yeah? Prove it."
