Quiet or just Noise?

This past weekend was the National Alpaca Farm Days event. We participated in it and had some wonderful and varied visitors. I spent more time this weekend up in the barn with my alpacas than I would normally. What I noticed, in between visitors, is that the alpacas thrive in the quiet. When it gets noisy with people you can just tell that they're 'on guard.' They don't worry about the world and whats happening where. They don't care about television, newspapers, and other media. They don't see themselves as too fat, or too poor. They just are. The events they are concerned with are 'where's my baby?', 'let's go eat some grass', 'I need to stretch my legs', 'woohoo it's naptime.' Their quiet is not the quiet of alot of people. These people actually hear the noise of quiet. Alpacas actually enjoy it. This is something I'm having to learn to enjoy. I admit that I love having television on for background noise. At first the quiet this weekend was alittle unnerving. Now it's becoming soothing. This is a no caffeine permitted kind of quiet. At least until Mikey, my cranky yankee alpaca, starts picking on someone and they start screeching.