I wish we could be the model ranch, having enough hay for the whole year, sheep with NO vegetation matter stuck in their wool, lush, green pastures that can be irrigated etc……. Read the rest of this entry »
I am an Olympics nut. I have been since I was 12 years old in 19##. So I have been GLUED to the TV set this last week, in between homeschooling, dishes, errands, critters and church. Not much else is getting done. I’m squeezing in a post before the evening Olympics come on in a 1/2 hour. Names like Apollo Ohno, Lindsey Von, Shaun White, are household words here right now. As I watch with the kids, I reminisce about past Olympics and recall outstanding feats. Such as Jean Claude Killy winning 3 alpine skiing medals in 1968, the miracle US Hockey team winning the gold medal in 1980, etc, etc. They feign interest but really, they are thinking, “Mom’s being nostalgic again”, (and showing her age!).
I did see some “chicken olympics” the other day. A certain hen has discovered that llamas are warm. She has taken to roosting on them at night, and riding around on them during the day. My daughter has started feeding her on top of poor Sedro! She pecks and scratches around on top of him. He doesn’t even feel it. She gets a gold medal for “llama riding”, and llama jumping”, as she was hopping from llama to llama. Obviously she didn’t want to walk in the mud, as it is “mud season” around here. Unfortunately I didn’t have the camera handy so no pictures.
So, my husband is an Olympics widower till next weekend. He’ll have a reprieve for 2 years till the summer games.
Until next time…
The crias in front, Shilo and Johnson in back
Continued from “Johnson Joe and the Ladies”
I got to the point that I thought they WEREN’T pregnant until my son came running into the house yelling, “Shilo has a head sticking out of her!”. We raced outside, (armed with all the llama books) and my birthing kit. Sure enough, Shilo did have a baby sticking out of her. She kept trying to sit on it (or so we thought). Read the rest of this entry »
Johnson Joe was an awesome llama. Yes, you caught it, I said WAS. (I’ll go into that at a later time). Read the rest of this entry »
At the end of this month, 10 years ago, we got our first llama. His name was Johnson Joe. We had talked about getting one SOME DAY. I had been wanting one for about 15 years, but prior to 1992, I was single and living in the city with no hope of ever owning a llama. But then I met my husband and we shared the same desire to live OUT of the city. Read the rest of this entry »
