Sustainable agriculture as profitable

Here's a link to a New York Times article about learning to shear sheep at Montana State University (it only takes three days to learn).

"This is a fortunate year to become an American shearer. In a strange local backwash of global capitalism and the weak United States dollar, the Australian and New Zealand shearing companies on which Western ranchers have come to depend are staying home this spring, unable to justify the exchange-rate loss."

Now I have to convince my father to start a sheep farm.

Come with me, and you'll be in a world of pure imagination

I have no self-control.

First, I found a pattern for the Wenlan Chia's best friend cardigan that I've wanted to knit for awhile online instead of in the book I hadn't brought myself to buying yet.



Second, I found suitable yarn on sale on WEBS.

Third, WEBS also had niddy noddies.

Guess what I did? I bought more yarn.

Perhaps my lack of self-control is due to the massive amount of yarn in my room. Perhaps it is influencing me to buy more of it.

Which is strange because, I really don't have any more room for yarn in my room. Plus, I'm starting to have nightmares that my bedroom is much like Willie Wonka's Chocolate Room only for moths. There is wool under my chair in forms of skeins and balls, there is wool on top of my chair in the form of an afgan, there is wool on my desk chair where I pile my sweaters, there is more wool in my dresser where my sweater should belong. I'm almost convinced that I'll be awakened in the middle of my sleep my a high-pitched whine that will sound like the tune of Wonka's Pure Imagination song.