Great news from Renate Gyuro who is heading up our Columbus Weekend alpaca show, she e-mailed to say that we are now totally sold out of pens. I guess it wasn't totally unexpected but I never like to count my chickens until they have hatched, so to speak. Its a good feeling to be still 30 days from the show and to be totally sold out.

The fleece entries are down on this time last year so we need to stimulate some late entries if at all possible.

Plus we need some alpaca fleeces to give as prizes in the fibre arts competition.

While our Italian alpaca farmer Gaia was staying with us she skirted a couple of fleeces and I am going to enter one in this years Monterey Pronk. Its not something I have every done before so its quite interesting filling out all the forms and boxing the fleece up to mail it to the show. Not quite sure how I will get it back but I will figure that out nearer the time...

I was thinking today that it might be quite interesting to do a "day in the life of an alpaca farmer" and try to chart out a typical day hour by hour with some attractive pictures.

Speaking of pictures I must upload some pictures onto the bLog later today I normally do it at the same time that I write the entries but for some i am out of synch this week.

Adrian Stewart