I’ve let a lot of time pass since my last blog entry! We have been unbelievable busy, partially due to Fred’s frequent business travel. We’ve also both sustained bad colds which hindered our activities. I missed the Hoosier Hills Fiber Festival, and we’ve had to skip several shows. We did qualify several of our llamas for Regionals, including Got My Vote, Sand Pebble Cruz, Luci Lui and Salom Cruz. Got My Vote also earned his ALSA ROM. We said goodbye to Kailua Cruz, Smokin’ Ebony and Lace, Geisha Cruz and Lennie, all of whom have gone to great homes with wonderful people. Keep those updates on our babies coming! We love to hear how our llamas are doing!
We’ve had our first suri baby, a female by Sassfras Lady. She is a precocious child, and wonderfully playful. We are very pleased with her and look forward to showing her next year. Our two other females who we thought were due, have gone well past a year gestation, and I believe they are not pregnant as anticipated. They fooled both us and our vet!
A head’s up for you suri breeders out there: Star Adonis will be at our farm this fall! This is our first chance to use this wonderful, proven suri producer. He will be available for outside breedings, and we will plan to sell a few selected females bred to him. Adonis is a large male by any standards, and has had super nice babies with loads of presence and excellent confirmation. His percentage of suri babies is very high, and he has the beautiful head and ears and strong topline that we look for in all our bloodlines. If you are interested in stud service or a bred female, drop me an email!
Other than a hot Memorial Day weekend, our weather has been tolerable cool. We are trying to stay on top of mowing and weeding, although my garden, once again, got away from me. I think I can save the tomatoes and peppers, but other than that, I will have to wait for next year and assume I will have more time for gardening!
Shearing got completed this year with personal marathon sessions, while my hubby was in Norway. Fortunatley the weather cooperated. The Farmhouse is once again full of fiber, and I am hoping I can get some time to work on sorting and maybe dying some raw fiber later this summer. A couple of you are waiting on roving from me, and I need to get that done as well! How many hours are there in a day again? Not enough, that’s for sure. Even though it is still light at 9:30 pm, I have to find time to work my “paying job” somewhere between all of this!