Today I was up at the crack of dawn...well it was 4.15 actually so well before the crack of dawn to load up two alpacas and head off to Northwest alpacas which is a good 5 and half hours drive north of here. That was when I made my first mistake i had been to lazy to close the barn door last night and just assumed the females would stay in there....wrong!

The alpaca females were out in the biggest pasture we have and if you have ever tried herding alpacas by flashlight in the pitch black you will know like I do that however well behaved they are in daylight when its dark they are just not happy at all....so a job that should have taken 5 minutes maximum ended up taking 45 minutes.....not fun at all. But it could have been worse it could have been raining.

After dropping off the girls for breedings I had lunch with Mike Safley who is just heading off to Peru to do some more work with the charity that he established down there and which supports the local alpaca farmers.

Then I went on a mission to find an aeroplane that now lives in Oregon but used to belong to the RAF (Royal Air Force) and was based in the small town of Kemble near where I lived in the UK.



And sure enough there she was at the Evergreen Aircraft Museum near McMinville in Oregon.

Quite strange being that close to something I only ever saw from the ground while it flew overhead many years ago...... who would imagine that we would both end up living in Oregon!