Fleece Junk!

These are photos of the mess I made sorting fleeces one day this month.  The top two pics are just hay contamination (when it's more hay than fleece I toss it), the third down is a big swath of 2nd cuts (less than 1" long), and last is the trash bag under a "clean" fleece that hadn't actually been washed.  That bad boy is going in a mesh laundry bag and getting beaten outside before it touches my hand cards or drum carder!   I'm just glad the neighbor is parking in her garage so I can without showering her car in dirt.
When I first started I felt like I had to salvage EVERY hair from the animal possible.... but I'm not doing that anymore. They are growing more, every single year... I'd rather have more time to spend with the dyepots!