June 15th and all is well!
As always too much time has passed without an entry in this blog. Much as I want to pay attention things just seem to come up and keep me away!
This spring a lot of time was spent with my youngest grand-daughter Emily going to rehearsals for the Virginia Renaissance Faire. She is part of the Poppets Guilde and since she is only 8 1/2 needs a guardian on site. That was me! In April, as I recall we were attending rehearsals every other weekend and worked up to every weekend by May.
Chuck and I started attending the faire in 2005 with our alpacas. While alpacas probably were not part of the renaissance in all honesty, I think they could have conceivably been. The 'story' is really too long to type in here but if you are interested, go onto our website - www.alpacasofnottinghamhollow.com under the events section and check out the faire info for the past couple of years.
This year we have taken a couple of weekends with our guys but I have been there every weekend for Emily. Time well spent, as making memories always is, but I must admit I am not sad today, going into the weekend, that it is the last one of the season. That said I will have a totally different attitude on Sunday at 6pm when reality sets in. We have wonderful friends at faire and it will be sad to not see most of them for many more months. But gee, maybe I will get something else accomplished! One can only hope!
Next weekend I will be attending a seminar on alpaca management and fiber put on by Ian Watt, a fiber expert now living in CA but originally from Australia. Ian posts on the various forums and I am looking forward to attending this two day seminar. It is put on by VAOBA which is the Virginia Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association.
Before then we have an 8 month old weanling coming to stay with us at our farm named Triton. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures successfully on this blog I will post the one I received from his owner. He is smiling! Not looks like he is smiling but really smiling! Too cool. Triton will be picked up on Monday if plans work out. He will be here on consignment.
We have decided to put our two youngest males together with him. Archer is a year and a half and will most probably end up herd leader of this new small herd. Duncan will be six months old on July 3rd. He is going to be placed in with the other two boys so that they all 'hit' the space at the same time. Presumably this will mean that they spend more time checking out their surroundings than establishing dominance through fighting. Duncan will stay with the older boys during the day and return to his dam for supper and bedtime for a couple of weeks anyway.
In July there is the annual VAOBA membership meeting at which we will have elections. In order to get those accomplished in time the ballots have to go out next week. I will need to get to work on those Tuesday. After the interview that is scheduled with the reporter for the Free Lance Star, Fredericksburg's main newspaper. She heard of us from a co-worker who met us at a PR 'gig' that we did at Belevdere Plantation in late April. We went to the Living History Day with the VARF folks. We had lots of visitors and most were thrilled to meet Robin Hood and his Merry Men! This also intrigued the reporter and she has scheduled an interview... Time to make some notes? Probably a good idea. It is hard for someone who doesn't know alpacas to absorb all we send their way! I also had some photos of the boys taken last weekend with some of the cast members and one patron that play on the theme. We have the Sheriff of Staffordshire posing with the Sheriff of Nottingham Hollow; a Friar posing with Friar Tuck and Robert Hood posing with Robin Hood. I hope they cam be used.
Well, my time is up for this entry. Time to feed the 13 alpacas, 2 cats, 3 hens and 14 ducks! We had 11 ducklings hatch the last week of May- first week of June... My daughter says it is really starting to look like a farm around here. Um. Yeah....
Until the next time!
This spring a lot of time was spent with my youngest grand-daughter Emily going to rehearsals for the Virginia Renaissance Faire. She is part of the Poppets Guilde and since she is only 8 1/2 needs a guardian on site. That was me! In April, as I recall we were attending rehearsals every other weekend and worked up to every weekend by May.
Chuck and I started attending the faire in 2005 with our alpacas. While alpacas probably were not part of the renaissance in all honesty, I think they could have conceivably been. The 'story' is really too long to type in here but if you are interested, go onto our website - www.alpacasofnottinghamhollow.com under the events section and check out the faire info for the past couple of years.
This year we have taken a couple of weekends with our guys but I have been there every weekend for Emily. Time well spent, as making memories always is, but I must admit I am not sad today, going into the weekend, that it is the last one of the season. That said I will have a totally different attitude on Sunday at 6pm when reality sets in. We have wonderful friends at faire and it will be sad to not see most of them for many more months. But gee, maybe I will get something else accomplished! One can only hope!
Next weekend I will be attending a seminar on alpaca management and fiber put on by Ian Watt, a fiber expert now living in CA but originally from Australia. Ian posts on the various forums and I am looking forward to attending this two day seminar. It is put on by VAOBA which is the Virginia Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association.
Before then we have an 8 month old weanling coming to stay with us at our farm named Triton. As soon as I figure out how to post pictures successfully on this blog I will post the one I received from his owner. He is smiling! Not looks like he is smiling but really smiling! Too cool. Triton will be picked up on Monday if plans work out. He will be here on consignment.
We have decided to put our two youngest males together with him. Archer is a year and a half and will most probably end up herd leader of this new small herd. Duncan will be six months old on July 3rd. He is going to be placed in with the other two boys so that they all 'hit' the space at the same time. Presumably this will mean that they spend more time checking out their surroundings than establishing dominance through fighting. Duncan will stay with the older boys during the day and return to his dam for supper and bedtime for a couple of weeks anyway.
In July there is the annual VAOBA membership meeting at which we will have elections. In order to get those accomplished in time the ballots have to go out next week. I will need to get to work on those Tuesday. After the interview that is scheduled with the reporter for the Free Lance Star, Fredericksburg's main newspaper. She heard of us from a co-worker who met us at a PR 'gig' that we did at Belevdere Plantation in late April. We went to the Living History Day with the VARF folks. We had lots of visitors and most were thrilled to meet Robin Hood and his Merry Men! This also intrigued the reporter and she has scheduled an interview... Time to make some notes? Probably a good idea. It is hard for someone who doesn't know alpacas to absorb all we send their way! I also had some photos of the boys taken last weekend with some of the cast members and one patron that play on the theme. We have the Sheriff of Staffordshire posing with the Sheriff of Nottingham Hollow; a Friar posing with Friar Tuck and Robert Hood posing with Robin Hood. I hope they cam be used.
Well, my time is up for this entry. Time to feed the 13 alpacas, 2 cats, 3 hens and 14 ducks! We had 11 ducklings hatch the last week of May- first week of June... My daughter says it is really starting to look like a farm around here. Um. Yeah....
Until the next time!
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