Farm Critters

Across from my parent's farm is a another farm. There are cows, goats, emus, donkeys, turkeys and few more types of critters.  I like that we just get to look at them and I don't have to help take care of them :) 

Morning Farm Chores

 

Yes I am pretty sure Blue is the coolest alpaca in the world.  I was helping my parents out this morning with some farm chores. My dad was adding stone dust in front of the boys shed and we moved some floor matts around.

 

Smoke Ring made sure my father was doing everything right.

 

 

"Hey guys come check this out."

 

 

Awan, Blue and Kigo came over for further inspection.

 

Blue is very pleased with his upgraded digs. No more dirt and nice level stone dust. What more can an alpaca wish for?!

 

I also swung by the girls to see how they were doing. Miss Jatoba had a clover in her mouth and it just made her look even cuter than normal. She is so sweet. She came over and gave me a kiss and didn't drop the clover. She is so fancy.

 

Mr. Bates, Aponi, Jatoba, Francesa and Swag were kind enough to all stop and look at the camera for me.  I am loving that their fleeces are coming back in.  It looks like the weather is going to be cooling off soon! We are ready to get rid of this humidity.

 

 

I saw this pretty purple flower growing in the field and I couldn't resist taking a picture. 

Happy September!

An After Dinner Walk

 

Smoke Ring just hanging out.

 

There is nothing better than a big wet chocolate lab that loves to fetch sticks in the pond.

Except when that big chocolate lab shakes off. hee hee

pumpkins

 

Don't you wish you had alpacas in your back yard?!

Yesterday we headed over to the farm for dinner at my parents. We have been doing a lot of entertaining at our house so it was a nice to get a break from cooking for the night.  Thanks Mom & Dad.  After we had some cheese burgers on the back deck we went for a little walk. The weather was just beautiful yesterday. It was so refreshing to not be too hot or too cold. It was just perfect.  Everyone had ice pops and I enjoyed getting a chance to take a few pictures.  Harper my parents dog was having so much fun in the pond. I couldn't help but take a ton of pictures of him. He is such a good boy.

 

I hope you had a wonderful and relaxing weekend. We had to say bye to our cousins that are moving to Dallas, Texas. It was sad, but we are hoping to go out and visit them.  It looks like there are a lot of fun things to do in Dallas so the kids are excited.



Is This a Good Idea? I Think So?

Brady goes to two schools. He goes to one school five days a week for 2 hours and 20 minutes in the afternoon.  He goes to a Pre-K at another school twice a week in the morning.  If you ask him if he likes school he will tell you "I don't like going to two schools. I only want to go to one school."  Lately dropping him off at this Pre-K school has been like dropping off a two year old that doesn't want to leave his mom. Only he isn't two he is five.  He clings to me and cries. It has gotten worse every drop off since Easter. So today Freddy and I decided he doesn't have to go to two schools anymore. He only has to go to one school.  When I told him he was so happy I thought he was going to explode. So hopefully we made the right decision. 

 

My fear now is that Tiny is going to fight going since he and Brady get dropped off at the same time.  I have a feeling it is all going to work out fine, but man was I nervous about making that call about not sending him anymore.  Mostly because after I drop him off I know he does cheer up and join the class. But I know he is going to be so much happier.  Plus it will give us some one on one time twice a week. Which I know I won't get once he starts Kindergarten :(

 

 

Over the weekend we stopped by the farm.  My parents were putting in a new waterer for the alpacas and the grandkids put their handprints in the wet cement.

Even Harper the dog got his foot print in there.

 

 

My mom has been busy working on the fleeces in her basement. I got to take a look at Blue's.

 

 

Isn't it awesome! I love it. 

 

 

 

My mom has been getting some of the fleeces ready for spin-offs.  She takes a smaller sample of their entire fleece and she will send them into competitions and a person will judge the fleece from appearance and then spin it and it gets all different points for different qualities.

 

This is Lily's fleece. Doesn't it have a WOW factor.  Also in Lily news we didn't think she was pregnant, but now that she is sheared we keep seeing movement in her belly. Maybe she is pregnant. The vet is going to check her out.  Fingers crossed that she is (she was bred, but her blood work showed she wasn't pregnant).  If she is pregnant she will be due this Fall. 

If not she will be bred soon.

 

 

Lily

 

Here is Vauneese's fleece. I am thinking cardigan.

 

 

Vauneese is due to have her first baby in the Fall.

Vauneese

Reno's fleece is awesome. I love it.

 

 

Reno

 

Sweet little Jatoba's fleece is beautiful too.

 



Jatoba

 I love Maggie's gray fleece.

Maggie

 I love gray!

 

Francesca's fleece is so soft I wish you could feel it!

 



Francesca

 So there are a few samples. There are more to go, but I thought this was a good distraction from working and my decision from this morning about Brady.  I really hope the boys adjust to the new schedule without any major problems.  We'll see. It is only for another four weeks so I think we can make it.

 

Alpaca Pooper Picker-upper Guys

I took these pictures a few weeks ago of my boys helping out at the farm.  Brady says his job is the "Alpaca Pooper Picker-upper Guy". Both boys help giving the alpacas their hay, sweep and rake.  I am actually the lucky one to clean up the poop while they get to play with the herd.