We are taking part in the LEAF National Farm Open Day. The barn has been swept and looks very good and we now have to work out where we are going to put some animals, whiz out and buy refreshments, get the alpaca socks hung up and ready for sale etc. etc. We have no idea whether anyone will turn up but some of our neighbours have threatened to come up for tea and cake so we should have someone to talk to!
The weather is fantastic, so warm that yesterday I ventured into the new M&S in Tiverton and bought quantities of barbecue food, very expensive I know, but at least you know there is no gristle is the sausages and burgers, something I cannot abide. The barbie was fun, followed by English strawberries and English champagne, part of my birthday present.
The alpacas are almost comatose today, sitting around the water troughs or stretched out in the sun asleep. We haven’t had a cria since Thursday but maybe we’ll get number 17 tomorrow during the Open Day.
Ernie, Gill, Sam and dog turned up today and have made an offer on three pregnant females so hopefully they are sold which will make their owner very happy, and us of course.
Our neighbour has two horses in the field we rent from him for the alpacas and they escaped today as we had inadvertently left a fence down. Chas looked out of the bathroom window this morning and did a double take as he saw this large brown horse wandering up the run. They do extremely large poos compared to alpacas, great steaming lumps of it all over the place. They are very amenable horses and toddled back into the right field with the alpacas quite happily.