The weather looks set fair as they say in nautical circles and I have retrieved my summer shorts and exposed my pale legs to the elements once again....

Today's farm visit was from a family to the north of here and we had the most enjoyable time wandering about the farm in the summer sunshine and talking about all things alpacas. Their son has been breeding pigs and wants to get into alpacas. He had certainly done his research and asked a whole host of really great questions.

We spent about 90 minutes looking at the alpacas and at alpaca fleece and alpaca finished goods.

As they left I lent them a couple of my books. The classic Alpaca Shepherd by Mike Safley and the Marty McGee book about camleid dynamics which is an absolute must for all alpaca farmers and breeders and............ you can currently win one in our spring alpaca competition.....so check out this great book on how to handle alpacas (and llamas). Then make sure you enter our competition.

Don't forget to check out our Spring Competition.....

The voting packets have arrived for the annual Alpaca Ownesr and Breeders Association elections and we have selected our candidates and sent off the completed ballots as per the somewhat overly complicated voting mechanism....wouldn't it be so much easier to build a voting system that would be web based? Think how much money we would save?

But that would require a level of trust I don't see in this alpaca industry anytime soon.

So who have we voted for? I will tell you tomorrow...

Until then enjoy the evening sunshine and the wonderful world we live in....