Friday, March 29, 2013
Karen, Vetal and Kris shearing "Shear Magic's" blanket.
Spring is always a busy time around the ranch. Crias's being born. Getting ready for shows. Getting the irrigation ready for another year. Fertilizing pastures and OH Yeah, Shearing.
A couple of year ago I moved my shearing to mid March with the plan to have everyone but the show string sheared before April first. I did that because it is not unusual to have a day or two in April that's about 100 degrees. The pastures are drying out and the alpacas are finding places to have dirt baths. read more...
Slick shearing the legs.
Lining up for their day at the Spa.
Removing seconds.
Checking the topknot
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Sunday, March 10, 2013
Upper right corner is Pistachio color, What do you think?
Several of us got together to dye a variety of fibers this weekend. The weather was glorious and we had a great day. It was fun to see the results of each person's color selections.
What's really fun is to read the name of the color and have an idea in your mind what it will look like when you haven't seen a color chart for that color. Today that color was Pistachio. I was expecting a green color like the pistachio inside the shell. Wrong, the color had a lot of blue undertones. Very read more...
Sangria over mulit color fleece
Raven's Taupe, Fushia, Sangria hand painted yarn
Chartreuse over mulit color fiber.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Daisy
Daisy was born, at a friends farm, to a first time mom who rejected her. I don't mean she just was a little slow in figuring out motherhood. She would NOT let Daisy nurse. The farm tried diligently to bond the mother and daughter. The vet suggested drugging the mom and putting her into the twilight zone. They tried this for days. They followed the vet's instructed and increased the dose until the mother was so out of it she was staggering around. That is until Daisy tried to nurse. Then sh read more...
Daisy has a new Mom and Sister
Elpaba nursing Daisy and Cosette
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Spring in Winter
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Sunday, January 20, 2013
Fantine and Sierra
So did you like the movie "Les Miserables"? Well so did we. We named Sierra's female cria Fantine (Anne Hathaway's Character) we also have Cosette and of course Hugo named for the writer Victor Hugo.
Fantine was born January 20, 2013 at 19.5 lbs. She is an early bird as she was born about 7 AM. Guess mom forgot to read the page of the book about "normally" birth between 10 and 2.
Who cares she is a beautiful medium fawn cria that is very dense and appears to be very crimpy. Her color read more...
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Mercedes, about 15 minutes old.
Well I guess our due date was wrong on Sedona. She had her cria today and it's not a premie.
I was out of town and my granddaughter Shelby was on baby watch. She returned home and not 10 minutes later her dad called and told her there was a baby on the ground. She thought something had happend to Bentley or York in the 10 minutes she was gone. He said no, "it's a new baby!" She and her twin, Mariah, run to the car for a wild ride to see the new baby. They lives just 5 minutes away.
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Mercedes 1-17-13 (9 days)
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Friday, December 28, 2012
Welcome GypsyRose Lee (3days old)
NessaRose finally had her cria. I shouldn't say finally because she was actually a few days early.
I predicted she would be born on the 28th as my niece was visiting and like clockwork there is normally a baby born when she is here. So the morning of, December 28th at 8:51 AM Nessa had, GypsyRose Lee, a beautiful female cria that is medium fawn. Her sire is KTL El Torro. Fortunately, Nessa decided to have the cria while we were cleaning and feeding. This meant we were there to watch t read more...
NeassRose and GypsyRose
GypsyRose 1-17-13 (20 days)
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Holly and Havana
OK so we didn't get a White Christmas, BUT, we did get snow here twice in the last couple of weeks.
Snow is not unusal here since the mountains are just a few short miles away. It's not unusual to have the roads closed going north, east or west and on the rare occasion south. Redding is a little lower so we occasionally get snow. If we are lucky once or twice a year we might get some. So when we do get snow it's a BIG deal.
I love the snow and love it even more when it only last a day read more...
Fuju Persimmons
Nandina
The Pond
Pastures in the snow
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Saturday, December 15, 2012
Removing the first scarf from the loom.
We have just finished our first two "Weave an Alpaca Scarf" classes. This class is designed for you to learn to weave. You learn the basics and terms of weaving and the basic weave pattern. It's just a fun easy class to learn the basics.
Colleen Harvey-Arrison taught our first classes. She pre-warped the looms with alpaca yarn. The students chose two colors for thier scarf which sported a few small stripes.
Everyone had a great time and completing their alpaca scarves. Some of the s read more...
Weaving on a Cricket Loom
Hard at work
Focused on Weaving
Colleen answering a question.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Bently DOB 10-26-12 few minutes
Cosette DOB 10-4-12 on Day One!
Hugo DOB 10-26-12 India DOB 10-9-12
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