A Claire Light shines on Harmony Hill.

It was our good fortunate that Claire Cohen and her partner Paul took a break from thru hiking the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada to stay with us.  Paul (trail name Charlie) is  a former zookeeper,  a man of many skills who is the most widely traveled adventurer I have ever met.  He stayed a couple of days before flying back to the UK to see his Mum.  Claire stayed a bit longer than 2 weeks.  She was a competent goat milker, horse handler, and cockroach wrangler.  She attacked each job with vigor and efficiency from scooping poop, harvesting goat food, collecting seeds, planting trees, to pulling weeds.   Claire is a silversmith and puppet maker.  She made the Chickens in the wonderful movie CHICKEN RUN and many other well known movie characters such as Wallace & Grommit.

Claire sewed a beautiful embroidered vest for Turkey to protect his feathers when it gets a bit cooler. 

She mended the horse fly masks, repaired  a chair with baling twine made a summer curtain for the front door,  crocheted a scrubby with baling twine, and taught me how to make felt with Llama hair.

We had great fun together at the  Native plant nursery in the National Park, Cattle Round up, First Fri. Party, Bunko, and  Kayti's Yoga class.  She rode three different horses, Twister at the Cattle Round up, Paint at Drill Team practice, and Cabarina at Harmony Hill. 

making felt from llama wool

 Our friends were captivated by  stories of her travels and adventures.  She left us better than she found us.  Allen and I will miss her but be following her PCT adventures on her blog

http://chippingalongwithcharlie.blogspot.com/2013/05/mile-650.html.