Saturday July 13th,nearly Bastile day!

Nearly time to man the barricades,(or should that be ‘paca the barricades), you know 14th July, Bastille and all that, do try and keep up, I am only an alpaca after all ! It’s your Hiccup here again, come to save you from your boredom and let you share in our exciting lives here at the ‘funny farm’…….. and the strange goings on of our ‘staff’, they do their best but they are odd! .…….anyway more of them later. Can you see Sioux behind me? well, she had her baby on Friday just after Blaze had hers……it’s been all Go here these last few days! But before we get to our newly borns we had to say goodbye to big ‘ol Katniss & ‘bounce’ along with Amelia, they’ve gone off to join a new herd over near Geneva which I understand is near the mountains with lots of different weather……….I do hope they’ll be alright,,,,,,,,I’m really missing having young ‘bounce’ tearing around and getting us all going, she was good fun. Oh well, lets hope some of our newbies are as lively as her.

Here’s their view………mmmm, nice, we like hills!

You can read Amelia’s thoughts……’look at that view, where the flip are we?!’ They’ve got some new friends to make there so they are not alone.

Here’s one of their new friends, Now there’s a wicked haircut…….can I have one of those? hee hee……….. So, back to our little ‘funny farm’, we have had our grass cut and baled in the flower meadow by our neighbour the other week so we are stocked up with hay for this coming winter, that’s a nice feeling as always and the sun has shone all the time so no trouble getting it all in dry this year.

Our ‘Staff’ have been making the most of the sunny weather with other jobs as well, not least getting the Boutique roof watertight before the next rain comes, although we’ve had a few impressive thunderstorms recently which have caused a few puddles on the floor.

Now, when I say ‘make it watertight’, that is probably more of a ‘wish’ or one could say a ‘forlorn hope’ when we consider who is doing the job and his past track record and first time success rate in other enterprises! ……… hush now my wicked mind, stop casting aspersions, let the first rain storm be the judge…….. but if there’s streams running down the walls and puddles on the floor again, don’t say I didn’t warn you! At least it’s a lower roof and he can’t hurt himself as much when he falls off! Right, back to the important business of us alpacas and our new arrivals these last few weeks, you saw Terra’s young boy just born who is now called ‘Just Joey’ so…………

……here is Celeste’s new cria who is called ‘Alfie’, born 26th june, a sparky little chap by the looks of. him, Celeste is even grumpier than she usually is with us all…….. no surprises there then, grumpy old boot!!

……and then the day before yesterday, Thursday 11th Blaze started birthing, there she is behind Alfie and Joey…….

…..it’s very interesting isn’t it…… what’s going on back here then guys?!

….ta daa, new arrival for Blaze, not quite a mini-me though, she hasn’t got her white face (not yet), fawn all over, looks more like dad Mo at present, and then whilst this was happening………………

……Suri ‘Sioux’ sat down in sympathy and went into labour as well!

Poor ‘Silk’, Sioux’s son from last year looks on with concern………’what’s going on mum?’

Ooh…….. there you are, out pops a little brown girl, two girls in one morning, very nice and everyone’s fit and healthy, phew.

Welcome young lady, join the crew (she’s got the white face now, how they change in a day or two)………….

……..and welcome to our gang as well to you, girl of Sioux….…..steady, I could become a poet, or is that a limerick’ist!

So now it’s playtime, stretch those new legs and see how they work, could be fun………. See you soon.