May 2009

As usual it's been awhile. So busy. Especially this month. I had the grand opening of my farm store on Memorial Day weekend, had a booth at the Hopkinton Sheep & Wool Festival, and had my animals shorn. Whew. June will be much easier. Everything went really well. The weather for the festival was just what you'd like it to be-----sunshine, temps. in the 60's, and a breeze. Except for Saturday night when a very windy and wet thunderstorm came thru. We were told of it's coming so be basically all took down our booths (oh what fun that was) then put them back up the next day. We had friends of ours at Foss Mountain Alpaca Farm come down to shear our animals for us. It was done on a table. I'm not sure if doing it on the floor is better or worse, the animals just plain don't like it! It's soooo funny after the first alpaca is done (in our case it was Mikey as we go from light to dark). He just kinda looks like we would if we were the only one naked in a room full of clothed people! Lately Skye, who is 2 1/2 years old, is definitely hitting puberty! As of late he's been challenging Mikey and doing alot of screeching. It gets just alittle noisy! Well I'm off to my garden to do some weeding!