Some days you are struck by inspiration.  Or, just struck.  Yesterday, at work, I saw a seemly innocent pile of sheep puppets.  We often have a few around, but the Boss just ordered a 1/2 dozen which had been placed up on a high shelf, looking forlorn.

I had a flashback to the Wallace and Gromit short "A Close Shave", which is mentioned in my "movies that knit" in the left column.  In it, W&G rescue a herd of sheep from the evil mechanical dog, Preston. The getaway sequence has the heroes and the flock on a motorcycle, shifting into different configurations to stay on the moving vehicle.  Here’s a picture of them at a stop, reaching Gromit in prison:

Then they drive away, and at one point are positioned as an upside down pyramid.  I couldn’t quite do that in the window of the shop, so I did this instead:

Note the cartoon bubble above the sheep on the left.

If you’d like to adopt (buy) one of these lovely ladies, give us a call at Unique One,
we’ll ship you one–but it will mess up the pyramid.

In other news: I ordered a new computer at 6:15 am today.  She should be here within two weeks.  Yeah!

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