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113th Edition Consignment Sale Saturday, October 17, 2020
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“Where Good Angus Cattle and Great People Meet” 100 LOTS OF REGISTERED ANGUS CATTLE SELL 38 Bulls • 26 Fall Pairs • 6 Spring Pairs • 12 Bred Cows • 10 Bred Heifers • 7 Open Heifers Lot 11
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Returning to an Old Love By Laura L. Valenti
Jane Glendenning returns to her love of sheep and fiber Back when Jane Glendenning and her husband Jack were just starting life together, they had cattle and sheep. In the 1980s, Jane kept 60 head of mixed breed wool sheep while raising their sons, Jack and Jason, in rural Laclede County, outside Lebanon, Mo. Friends at Eldridge, Mo., made her a spinning wheel and for nearly a decade, she enjoyed working in the fiber arts. “And then I went to work for the post office as a rural mail carrier for 25 years,” she explained. “Jack worked for the Missouri Department of Conservation and ran the cattle, but there just wasn’t time for the sheep anymore.” After retiring from the post office, Jane has reconnected with her past and is once again, enjoying life in fiber, which for her is also life with sheep. “I found the Whimsy Fiber Art Guild, a group of people who were Jane Glendenning of Lebanon, Mo., raises a spinning and teaching spinning mixed flock of wooled sheep at her family’s to others,” Jane said. “It re-kinfarm. She has even hosted a field day for dled an old interest. I’ve now acother fiber arts enthusiasts. quired three spinning wheels and we love to get together and talk about fibers, colors and spinning wheels.” “They have such beautiful soft wool and I And once again, she is raising mixed breed like mixing their wool,” Jane said. “I have sheep, including Shetlands, Border Leicester multi-colored sheep, including black, gray, and Blue-faced Leicester. silver and white. I like to stay with the earth “Some like the Shetlands, a primitive tones, the natural colors. They run from breed, and have not been bred up with other coarse to very fine, and of course, it varies breeds,” Jane said. depending on what you want to do with Others, like the various it. I like to say, I take the wool from Leicester breeds, trace back to the sheep to my spinning wheel to my England and colonial America. knitting needles. It’s pretty labor-inGeorge Washington was so taken tensive, but I enjoy it. When people with the various types, he men- Lebanon, Mo. complain that wool makes them tioned them in several of his letters itch, that is often from commerwritten more than a decade after cial products that have been the American Revolution. added to the wool somewhere
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