Tales of cartoons, horses and a secret

26/07/2009 by Rosemary.

It has been an incredibly busy few days and I have still got two pages of urgent jobs.  Last night we were in fits of hysterical laughter over a card sent by our friend in the village - a cartoon of me on the quad - hair flying, grinning manically, shouting “Have you ‘been’?”  While two alpacas stand at the side saying, “Go away!  You’re putting us off!”  Very true to life!

Everything seems to be happening at once and what was supposed to be a peaceful morning recuperating turned into a mad panic when Carl and Sam went down the road and came across a horse right in the middle, fully tacked but with broken reins and a car looming round the corner!  They took it to the side of the road and grabbed a passing motorist to hold it while they charged around looking for the rider.  As they were thinking of ringing for the police they came across her - she was fine but had fallen off over the gate leading down from the ridge and the horse had got away.

After that drama Carl started on the new alpaca paddock.  He spent an hour digging out a hole for one of the corner posts only to realise that it was in the wrong place and had to start again.  I had to do some urgent paperwork and feed every 2 hours.  The feeding is paying off though.  Little Star is now 7.4kg, so she has gained 1.4kg in 3 days.  She still tries to feed from her mum and Bert loves that!  Bert is so relaxed now.  When I feed she just stands or lies at the side and when it has finished she follows it and sniffs it and takes it off.

I am trying desperately not to write about the other exciting thing that has happened but I can’t until I have permission but I just have to give you a clue!  You might be able to work it out from the Wellground Alpaca Stud website - link at the side of the page!

Photos of the cria coming soon but now I must go and feed Little Star!

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