As someone familiar with the process of spinning wool into yarn, I enjoyed the quotation marks around Ms. Healy's comment that the cormo breed has less grease in the fleece. Everyone I know except my knitting/spinning friends would find that incomprehensible too.
charming story! except that the only way to get 'impaled' by a bucket is if it's broken and one is stabbed through with a shard of it.
As a resident of Mulberry Street for 39 years, I can tell you that this is one of the best things that ever happened in our neighborhood (another being the opening of a New York Public Library branch on that same block. There are also beehives in the churchyard. And yes, Eva, if you hold your child up, the sheep are visible from the Mulberry side. Or go around to the Mott Street side when the gate's open.
(Munch, munch, munch)
(Munch, munch, munch)
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I love it! another "Unexpected-New York-Quirky" experience. I can't wait to see them nibbling through those tiny viewing doors on the bigger black doors on the western side of the church (look for them).
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Yeah...would have been nice if this story gave details such as.... if we try to go there, will we be able to actually see the sheep?...or is the entire perimeter sealed off and with the walls too high to see in? And will there be a webcam set up for Youtube viewing?
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This story shows ewe can make it in the city that never sheeps.
(I know that was baaaaaaad.)
(I know that was baaaaaaad.)
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Interesting in many ways, maybe more practical and acceptable in some places.
Sheep carry some significance in Christian tradition, just as cows do in Hindu one. In Jainism, an Indian religion at least as old as Buddhism, the monks collect their meals by going from door to door, called "Gochari" (as a cow grazes). Jain monks take only a little bit of food items from each of the several households they visit, thereby not depriving anyone of their meals, while collecting their own. Sheep are said to denude the area they graze upon, leaving bare or bald patches behind; while cows just nibble off little bits from a very wide area, thus literally "mowing" it, or Mooing it, if you will.
Sheep carry some significance in Christian tradition, just as cows do in Hindu one. In Jainism, an Indian religion at least as old as Buddhism, the monks collect their meals by going from door to door, called "Gochari" (as a cow grazes). Jain monks take only a little bit of food items from each of the several households they visit, thereby not depriving anyone of their meals, while collecting their own. Sheep are said to denude the area they graze upon, leaving bare or bald patches behind; while cows just nibble off little bits from a very wide area, thus literally "mowing" it, or Mooing it, if you will.
I worked in a rural parish in the Andes that had a small plot of grass enclosed by a wall. Every few weeks, some parishioners would bring a few sheep to graze--and fertilize. A win-win situation. However, sheep can also eat the roots of grass so they need to be moved out when the grass is cropped.
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It would be lovely if the church had a live feed of the sheep posted for those of us who can't visit in person.
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I love it! Can we see the sheep in person or on the web? The stone fence looks rather high for a small adult.
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Go to the back side of the church and you'll see two black metal doors. On each door there is a tiny door that opens and you'll see the church grounds. York My daughter and I always take a peek whenever we walk by.