A week in pictures

Yes, the sun does come out in Vermont sometimes, you just wouldn't know it from the last few days!

It’s been a while since I’ve gone three days without polluting cyberspace with something here on the blog. A sign of the times. The effort of prepping 30 fleeces for Nationals (that would be Jen, see pic below) while simultaneously managing our kids school and sports schedules, and officially kicking off the 2011 breeding season meant that it was just frankly easier over the last few days to collapse on the couch in the evening rather than try to come up with anything coherent to write. We’ve also had a female in sickbay at the Arena that has required IV feeding three times a day. I’m sure that tops the list of things you’d like to be doing at 10PM too.

In between yours truly also helped King of the Ladies to get back to his birth farm along with one of his scheduled female dates. You truly haven’t lived until you’ve unloaded and reloaded alpacas in the middle of a suburban mall parking lot all while gawkers drive by in quite disbelief at what they’re seeing.  The presence of a Cheesecake Factoty at said mall made it all better though. We just didn’t worry about the old calorie count for a day! So though I didn’t mange to post as much over the past week as I might have liked, I did snap a few photos over the last 5 to 7 days as I was running around the farm….

A pile of seconds which we collected for a fleece buyer sits in a corner of the Arena. The two pallets of grain in the foreground were anchor points for one of the two shearing stations we used the week before.
Our shorn blankets piled up in the fleece room at the Arena.
Jen works at skirting a show fleece in the Arena while her husband distracts her.
The guard chickens return to the Main Barn and relearn to coexist with our large group of juvenile males.