So we are either really clinically insane or we are really super smart or possibly somewhere in between. We went to visit the alpacas and I don't know if there was some weird alpaca loving chemicals in the air or there was a lapse in our thinking for 20 minutes but we walked out of a barn somewhere in Indiana and the next thing we know is we are the owners of 3 alpacas, eating some lunch at Cracker Barrel and freaking out about it. I vaguely remember standing in the middle of about like 100-200 female ones and my husband saying "just pick two and lets go!", but my brain is a little bit fuzzy on the whole situation. The kids immediatly picked their names so apparently there is no turning back.
"What do you plan on doing with these animals?" you may be asking. Well we plan to shear them and sell their wool, and we also plan to breed them. I'm also looking into "studding out" Lil Sebastian (that's our male....thanks
"Parks and Rec") in order to recoup some of the cost we are incurring to set our place up for these creatures. I am getting their papers soon and hopefully will be able to figure out the start of that whole process.
We don't have possession of them yet as we were really not planning on buying them JUST yet, but hopefully by the end of the month...they will be home! So without further ado, here are the new members of our family:
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| Lil Sebastian and his hair pants. He's a genuine STUD-Muffin. |
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| Me tagging Shadow...she's kind of shy but probably has the sweetest of all their personalities. |
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| Lil Sebastian rolling around in the dirt and being all rascaly. I think he was overcome with joy that we now own him. |
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| Tina chillaxin in the barn. She will be shorn before we get her. And yes she was named after Tina on Napoleon Dynamite. |
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