It's over a year

since I wrote anything here. Lots of things have happened. I'm now working three days a week at my paid job and about one day a week volunteering. The alpacas are still on the ranch, but the goat has gone to live in Mt Larcom Qld. We've sold many alpacas including Xali (Jemima - she was nicknamed this by the construction guys working on the road who fell in love with her) and Xena, Xhu Xhu......... Cha Cha has gone to live with someone else, along with Xeus. Zadoc and Zhenka are hopefully guarding goats to the best of their ability. We've had a few babies, and nearly lost Kimberley to worms. She got incredibly sick, and only just hung on. She couldn't stand up, or even get into a cush position from lying she was so weak. I'd decided that if she died I was going to kill her, so kept pumping her full of vitamins, iron, wormer, even made her drink water........ and after about 4 weeks realised that she was going to live. She was really sick for at least three of those weeks when it was touch and go. We'd be getting up during the night to stand her up, and make sure she wasn't lying down on her side. I'd come home from work to discover her flat in the paddock, and it would only be an ear twitch that made me realise she was still alive. I'd load her onto a trolley and drag her up from the bottom of the paddock to water and food and the obligatory injections. She's back to her fine self again, but still thin.

We lost a baby......... Elouise's Wheyo. He was about 15 months old. The vet did an autopsy and said Endotoxemia. It didn't make it any easier to digest cause there was no reason for it. He had been healthy and seemed to be in good condition, and was fine the day before he died.
Really hard. Her next baby was Vanco Victory who was stuck during birth, and was hanging with head and legs out for more than 4 hours while I was at work. I came home and pulled him out, and then had to feed him for about three weeks because he seemed to have difficulty raising his head, and feeding from Elouise. However, persistence paid off, and he's fine now. He was born at the end of May 2008.

Craftwork has kept me busy with lots of felting and now lots and lots of orders for spun yarn.
Not enough hours in the day to do it all (as well as work)

which reminds me............. I should be carding wool right now.

Will post some pictures