Woven

[altivo]

Only the border to go on the purple onions runner. I think there will be enough warp left for two more pieces, and I've already designed them in my head. One will be called "Pink Snow" (from the Cat in the Hat) and the other will be "Drunkard Cat's Tracks." You'll see why when it's finished

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[altivo]

Not particularly, no. I mean, it's not as if we slept with them or anything. Even then, anthrax doesn't just materialize out of nowhere. The infection would have to reach our place from somewhere else. Actual anthrax outbreaks are so rare and so well tracked that it would be nigh impossible for it to suddenly appear without warning.

Pigs and poultry share diseases with humans much more easily than do sheep, cows, or horses. Mosquito born encephalitis or influenza are the most likely cross-infections with horses (West Nile being one example) and you could catch that even if you had no horses on your own place, but there were some down the road. (Or a flight of infected crows stopped by for the afternoon, as far as that goes.) Pigs and chickens can give you all sorts of icky things. so washing after contact and care to avoid breathing dried manure are pretty important if you work with them. We have neither.

Shaun's condition is most likely not due to a contagious infection. It's probably caused by age, kidney failure, injury, or perhaps a tumor somewhere. We've had enough geriatric dogs and cats to recognize the symptoms. Parasites (not lice or fleas, but some intestinal nasties) could conceivably pass from sheep to human, but not as long as you practice cleanliness.