My son, home from school because of the bad roads, helped me out in the barn. I had expected mile high piles of beans, but instead just found a couple of small piles. A blessing on a snowy day. Perhaps the alpacas will realize the snow is just fluffy and will meander out of the barn so tonight will be a repeat of this morning. I am not holding my breath on that one!
Taking a good look at the herd, I noticed we have some very long nails. As soon as the weather improves and Richard is home to help me I will be trimming nails. If you have never trimmed nails, you really don't realize how some alpacas are very compliant, but there a a few alpacas that are a real challenge. Trimming nails has to be done to keep the herd healthy.
The middle of winter is a great time to start making serious lists, so when better weather arrieves you have a game plan. We planned our vegtable gardens a couple years ago. Last night Richard and I planned for our new blueberries and rasberries. This will be exciting to get some more fresh berries on the farm. We have strawberries and wild blackberries already growing on Sycamore Creek Farm. My daughter, for Christmas, gave me some seeds from Thomas Jefferson's home. so we will be planting nutmeg, artichokes, alpine strawberries for the first time this year.
Time to get to work,
Alpaca Lady
No comments:
Post a Comment