Okay the holiday is over it was great fun but we are now back at the alpaca coal face, so to speak.

Still no sign of the replacement part for the irrigation wheel which broke on the 3rd of July and which I thought was on order but turns out they couldn't find the part number for so had waited three days.....but even then I had to call them to find out what was going on... hard to believe people who work for an irrigation company have so little sense or urgency when it comes to broken irrigation equipment!

The electric gates had stopped working when we used the remote controls in the cars and so an investigation of the system was in order. When I flicked the cover off the radio receiver it was totally full of ants and ant eggs....the problem was obvious. So the ants are now dead and I am hoping that once I vacuum them all out of there then everything will return to normal..



The weather is very warm and into the high 80's so the alpacas are all sheltering under the shade of a tree. Still no sign of a cria from Southern Cross but she is starting to look like a new arrival could be here any day.



Of course once we have a new baby alpaca then I have to try and remember all the people who said they wanted me to call them once it had arrived. I really should keep a list of some sort.