Mud Season

Yes, this is a recognized season here in New England! The only issue I have with it is that normally it comes in April or May. Last week it was in the single digits----like 6 or 3. Yesterday it was around 50 and today around 40. While that may sound cold to some of you, it's warm for here and the snow is a meltin'. Hence, mud season. It's messy and ugly. Today was the first day that I put the halter on Tripper, the new alpaca baby. I didn't completely put it on but held the nose piece on him then took it off. I did this quite a few times. Baby steps. Do you remember Michael Vick and his fighting dogs? Last night on Nat. Geo. they showed 'dogtown', a vet clinic/kennel, that is rehabilitating his dogs. What a great thing!! All of the dogs had trust issues. Duh!? Anyway, I'll sign off as I have to get ready for my trip tomorrow. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

King Arthur

Finally! King Arthur arrived on Oct. 14th. I had been off from work for about a week but when I finally went back to work that's the day he decided to arrive. I called home to remind Marshall to check on Drama (the mama) and to look for the signs of imminent birth. We had just hung up when he called me back and said 'the babie's coming!' I was away from home for 2 more days. I couldn't wait to get home and see him! Since our farm name is Camelot we just had to name our first boy King Arthur. Alot of breeders of any animal have very fancy names for them and then have a short nickname. So King Arthur's nickname is Tripper since he has born while I was on a trip! He is a handsome boy. Since he's the only baby he gets alittle lonely for someone to play with. Sometimes it's myself or Marhsall and other times it's one of our other alpacas that he annoys enough to finally play with him. By the way, the peruvian word for baby is Cria. Baby alpacas are called crias. Hopefully I'll write again sooner than March!