We live down the street from a mansion called the Gore Place. For all those history buffs out there Gore was a former governor of Massachusetts (very early 1800's or during the Federal Period.) Anyway, the mansion has beautiful and extensive grounds which are a nice change from block after block of city. Each spring the Gore place holds a sheep shearing festival. After almost three years of living here we were finally able to attend!
The kids liked getting close and touching the sheep that had just had a hair cut.
Shaving an alpaca...
Playing with a big mask.
Watching sheep.
Sheep shearing the old fashioned way...
look at those huge shears! This was an impressive sight.
See how the fur looks like one big blanket?!
All of my boys, two of them sporting their favorite froggie rain boots.
This was a really fun family festival, however, I was shocked that my boys weren't that interested in the sheep dog demonstration! Maybe it was too late in the afternoon or too hard to see what was going on.
Playing with masks continued...
The Waltham garden club had a plastic swimming pool filled with bark mulch. They hid potatoes in the bark mulch and the kids used shovels to dig the potatoes out. Dave and Will did this over, and over, and over again. We had to drag them away from it screaming when it was time to go home.
Since the Gore place is less than a mile from our house Brad was sure he could walk home faster than I could drive. He took David by foot and I went with William by car. I beat him home by a good twenty minutes but he claims he would have been a lot faster if he could have cut through a fence and didn't have to around it to get out of the parking lot. :)
It was fabulous to enjoy this perfect spring day outdoors. We only wish we had gone earlier and seen some of our friends who had attended this festival in the morning.
