Life is overflowing with excitement

25/07/2009 by Rosemary.

It has been a brilliant day!

The sun has been shining and Little Star has been drinking her bottles and charging around the field.  She runs over when she sees the bottle coming, if it is feed time, but at any other time she keeps at arms length and sticks with Bert - which is really good.  Sam was on feeding duty this morning and did it really conscientiously.  I still did a 2am feed last night and I was glad I did because she was really thirsty and drank everything in the bottle.  We still have to weigh her but she is very lively so it looks good.

Sam was in charge this morning as we went on a visit to Wellground Alpaca Stud.  I know I have said it before on the blog but Rob and Lesley really are lovely people and very knowledgeable.  We were there just to view but they were so helpful and stood there patiently while we viewed the fleece of animal after animal.  I saw stunning  cria and was able to develop my judgement on fleece qualities which is fantastically useful.  I don’t think you can get far until you have examined fine animals closely.  Both Buckingham and Samson produce gorgeous cria and we have high hopes for next year.  We have come back bursting with ideas and hugely excited about breeding plans.  I was going to say we won’t sleep tonight we are so overexcited, but then we won’t anyway as we will be on cria feed and watch!

Pat and Dave brought lunch over and a magnificent arch Dave has created to train the honeysuckle over.  The workmanship is superb and I feel it is really rather too good for the garden - we were admiring it this evening and felt we should erect a plaque on it - “Made by Dave.”   W e sent them away with homework projects - knitting for Pat and woodwork for Dave - no rest for Westhill visitors!

It has also been a brilliant day because it was my birthday!  I actually think birthdays get better as you get older - I had lots of cards and presents and I didn’t feel ancient.  Sam gave me a beautiful tin of jelly babies and a book on household management (I think he may be hinting about the lack of cleanliness and organisation in the house at the moment!

Excitement about life is now overwhelming me so I am just going to sit with the alpacas!  Just a shame Mum and Dad couldn’t get up here - soon though!

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