Hi all,

I can't believe it will be February 1 tomorrow!  By the end of this week, we'll be into our 5th month as an active alpaca farm.  It's been challenging, but also fun.  I've loved seeing the different personalities develop among our 'kids'.   The two preggies hadn't finished their food this morning so I decided to give it to them tonight while the dogs ate.  Most of the girls and Banjo were hovering in the barn hoping for a snack.  Opal, Kisses, and Banjo were very surprised when they found themselves closed in the barn, especially when they saw that they were missing out on chow!  Bubbles and Ruby appreciated not having to share their food though!

We've added two more kids to the family.  We brought Ginger and Wyatt home a week ago.  They are  in quarantine for now.  Our young llama, Patches, is now bunking with the big boys (he's almost their size already!) and they're getting along great.   Banjo is in with the girls for just 2 weeks. That has worked out fine.   We will be moving Ginger in with the girls and Banjo will join Wyatt next door.

Ginger (Ginger Snap) is a medium fawn, about 3 years old, a  real sweetheart. One of the  photos below is of Ginger with Kayley (our neighbor's granddaughter).  The other is of Wyatt (Wyatt Earp) and Ginger.  Wyatt is an 18 month silver grey boy.   He's a little shy right now but he's warming up to us.

Ginger giving kisses to Kayley

Our two 'probies'

More snow!

Good morning, all!

We had more snow last night.  It only amounted to about 1 inch but it sure was pretty while it was coming down.  The kids love the snow! They were all cushing out in the dry lots when I went out to tuck them in for the night.  Our brown girls were so pretty with their snow blankets!

I'm headed back out to the barn shortly to do the cleanup for the day.   We have a small boom box out there so I usually turn it on to country music while I work.  The kids seem to enjoy the music also.

Happy New Year!

Wow! I can't believe it's already 2011!  I hope that everyone is having a good one so far!  I have no complaints here.

John and I celebrated the new year by opening a bottle of bubbly of course.  We called out a hearty greeting to our neighbors from our front door and then went out to the barn to see all the kids and wish them a happy new year too!  They were somewhat oblivious to it all.  I think we woke them up! LOL

We had our first snow of the new year this morning, with more expected by Monday.  We really just had a dusting at our farm. I took advantage of the cold and cleaned after them before it thaws and gets squishy!

I don't have any new photos at present but will try to dig some up in the next few days.