If you did not grow up on a sheep ranch, you probably never heard the term wool blind. My family scrambled to make a living on a small ranch. One source of income every fall was shearing EYES. My Daddy, would shear eyes on sheep, for numerous ranches at as little as 3 cents a head(in my memory) to make extra income. Some breeds of sheep have extremely wooly faces. The wool in their face grows more than the spring shearing takes care of. That mat of wool in their face can get so dense that it actually impedes their eye sight. Ranchers realizing an animal with its sight curtailed will not do as well, want each sheep to get a fall facial so it can winter better. It just takes three or four swipes with a shearing hand piece to clear a sheeps face. Someone has to catch and drag each ewe to the shearer. You do that by grabbing a hind leg and pulling her backwards. If you are a ranch raised stout teenaged girl, it is not hard work, just tedious. I was kind of grumbling one time, about wool blind sheep. Daddy told me that people get wool blind too. His explanation of wool blindness hit home. Wool or circumstances grow, evolve, change slowly, and the sheep or the person adjust to the gradually narrowing view. That new narrower view becomes the new normal. It becomes accepted. Views and visions are restricted. We are in the fall of the year, and the traditional time to shear eyes, clear our vision , widen our horizons and see the wide, wide, world for all, and every opportunity, that is available! Friends, do not be a wool blind sheep! Try something new, do something different , reach, stretch and enjoy a better tomorrow.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:25:06 +0000
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