tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86148509145773034042024-02-21T02:38:52.903-07:00HappyPacasUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-18536246585399016612012-11-25T22:31:00.000-07:002012-11-25T22:39:00.735-07:00A New Blog<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I just can't stay away. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although my life will change when The Boys find new homes, it will be like it was when our children left home: different, not done. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In that vein, I have started a new blog, one that you may or may not want to read. It will still be about life in the mountains, but this time, without alpacas in the starring roles. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're interested, please click <a href="http://www.coloradomountainmarm.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE </a>to see the new blog. I'd love to have you visit; if you do, please use the Comments to let me know you stopped by!</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-10340826592369474762012-10-28T13:26:00.001-06:002012-10-28T13:26:23.554-06:00Goodbye<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've made a very difficult decision ~ I am going to give away my "boys." As much as I love the alpacas, I just don't have enough time for them anymore. I thought I could do it all ~ teach school, raise alpacas, spin and weave, write a blog, hike, help my husband with his new business venture, save an old schoolhouse, travel ~ but I cannot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not only do I not have enough time, I just cannot go through another summer like the last one ~ seeing my friends' homes burn down, and worrying, worrying, worrying about our barn full of animals. The horse loads in the trailer easily, but how could I get six boys in there fast enough if a wildfire were eminent? The horse would walk right into the nearby lake if needed, but would the boys? The horse could take care of herself if we had no choice but to turn her loose ~ what would happen to the boys if I had to turn them out? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We went through one evacuation fairly easily, but that's because someone was watching over us, and we had plenty of advance notice. I don't want to risk it again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, this is the end of a decade-plus of living with and loving my boys. I have enjoyed it all, but know the best thing for all of us is to let them have a new home (or homes), out of the wildfire zone. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That means the end of this blog as well. To my faithful readers, thank you. </span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-91537915721689741202012-10-21T13:05:00.003-06:002012-10-21T13:17:10.550-06:00"Bad Boy, Ben!"<h3>
<i><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Two for one! Today, I'm posting twice ~ not because of any burst of energy, but because I (selfishly) needed to write a rather sad post, and I just couldn't let that one be the only post for the week. So, the sad one follows this one ~ skip it if you wish, and have a great week!</span></i></h3>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There's a reason Ben is our biggest alpaca: He's sneaky. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rather than simply using his bulk to bully the other boys off their hay piles...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...which would cause spitting</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...which would alert the dog</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...which would alert the humans</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...who would come in and yell at him...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ben has developed a nefarious way to invade his buddies' space.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The creep creeps up on them, slowly inching his hay pile towards theirs, until the piles are joined. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With a quick flick of his head, Ben convinces his victims that THEY have encroached on HIM, and must move along.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It has always been there, until now. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But it was here first. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">old </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">friend.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-53757385000080045212012-10-14T21:08:00.001-06:002012-10-14T21:56:54.269-06:00REAL Dog Toys<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our poor dogs. They have no REAL dog toys, so they've had to make do with what they could find around the barn. That would be their food dishes. (If you look carefully at the picture below, you can see the two dishes inside the pen, with the boys hiding as I ask, "Who brought THOSE out?")</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It really IS kind of cute, until you have to play "find-the-food-dish-again" EVERY night. Sigh.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I was <strike>complaining to</strike> telling my neighbor Belinda about the dogs' annoying habit, and she decided to play Santa; she brought over P.F. Chang's bagful of used toys she thought the boys might enjoy. They took turns checking it out...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...but Rodeo had trouble choosing.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At one point, Rodeo considered "sharing" Hank's favorite. That was NOT an option.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, so I'll confess that we buy "off-the-shelf" dog food (not the really good kind you get from a vet), so maybe the dogs are silently protesting. You know, like martyrs.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's what baffles me. The HORSE, who gobbles those dog-food pellets like they are candy, likes MEAT...but the dogs prefer plants?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nope. This is all-out, vegetarian behavior. These weirdos crave BEET PULP.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here they are, cleaning up the beet pulp after the horse has had her fill.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hank especially likes this delicacy, and often pushes Rodeo out, as he takes laps around the bowl with amazing speed!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I pondered that question, images from some photos I'd taken of the dogs and Lucy last weekend came into sharp focus. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The dogs had been loitering outside Lucy's pen, a place they are strictly forbidden to enter. Reason: She's big; they're not. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But they were pushing the boundaries that day ~ literally. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, I did what any responsible adult does when toddler-like beings in her care could be getting into a sticky situation ~ I took pictures! Aren't they cute, just commando-crawling right in there with that 1100-pound horse?</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I thought they were picking up pieces of beet pulp that Lucy had dropped as she ate her breakfast earlier. Gib thought that, too. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our dogs have been eating alfalfa. As in hay. As in $10-a-bale hay. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They're hungry? (No. We feed them the afore-mentioned dog food twice a day, in large quantities; plus they get all the dog treats they want.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They're bored? (No. They destroy things in the barn when they're bored.) </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They're hoping we'll feel guilty that the poor darlings are reduced to eating PLANTS, and that we'll cave in and buy the GOOD dog food? (Hmmm...at $10 a bale for hay, </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">vet dog food IS a bargain.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or maybe they're just weirdos...</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-56194176619745989772012-09-30T22:52:00.001-06:002012-09-30T23:15:10.600-06:00Fresh (?) Water<div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and there's black gold.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And now there's green gold.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Especially when it goes in like this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the plus side, in four to five years, we get this much rich, dark compost from the horse poop (that's a size 8.5 shoe for comparison; big shoe, little pile):</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the minus side, that four or five years of 24/7/365 poop adds up:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But, when the green gold goes in like this:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, the only problem is convincing people that at today's hay prices, these lovely little skeins of yarn are worth at least $100 a piece. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wow, just think what I can charge for a scarf! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><i>NOTE: Although I've poked fun at current hay prices, this is a serious matter for many people; some have had to give up their animals, and my heart goes out to them. Other people have simply abandoned their animals, and my heartfelt thanks goes out to the rescuers who have taken in those unfortunate critters.</i></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-83736676346596877172012-09-16T23:28:00.002-06:002012-09-16T23:39:33.157-06:00The Fingerprint Alpaca<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No, I did not get to have a sit-down dinner at any of the local restaurants up there (but I did have time for a Taco Bell drive-through for Friday dinner. Saturday dinner. Sunday dinner. I'm NOT kidding.)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead, I spent most of the weekend in a tent ~ a white one, in a long line of white ones, at the Estes Park Fine Arts and Crafts Show. Now, don't get me wrong, I had a great time seeing old friends and meeting new ones, but it just isn't the kind of thing you think about doing when you go to Estes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We've been doing this craft-show thing for a while, and have well-defined roles. My husband Gib is the artist; I put the logo stickers on the bags. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He gets the compliments on his admittedly gorgeous handmade boxes; I figure out how to use The Square (it's not too hard, unless you happen to forget your iPad is in Airplane Mode, then it's a bit difficult for that cute little plastic thingamajigy to find those magic waves it needs from The Cloud). </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He creates new and wonderous products; I write the riveting "point-of-purchase" signs telling people what they are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, after watching how great it is to be The Artist, I've decided to try my hand at it. Well, at least one finger. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This summer, in a dark corner of the children's section of a used-book sale at a library, I found a copy of Ed Emberley's Fingerprint Drawing Book. It shows, step by tiny step, how to turn your fingerprint into an adorable animals, from bees and caterpillars to dogs and lions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Using those techniques, I have perfected the fingerprint alpaca. Can you match the "print" version to the real thing?</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And this is EB White. (Doesn't he remind you of Albert Einstein, in an alpaca-y sort of way?)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, that's my plan. I'll become rich and famous creating Fingerprint Alpacas, and I'll donate wads of money to charity.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Best of all, though, I will become The Artist, and Gib can put stickers on my sales bags. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-36779672019335913152012-09-09T09:06:00.001-06:002012-09-09T09:08:33.491-06:00Her Royal Highness<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why yes, thankyouforasking, it DOES so happen to count as a second post...because it has a separate title!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These photos are from this past few months ~ the ones I took for all the posts I'd be writing during my carefree summer days. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instead, though, I've wisely chosen to wait to use them until now -- those carefree first weeks of school -- </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when life goes smoothly, and I have nothing else to do.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And those were just the ones nearby. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But when we it did rain, tiny moisture-loving plants came out for a while to celebrate, before dying back into the dust.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those delicate mushrooms weren't the only tiny, ethereal treasures gracing my summer. My sweet neighbor Jess and I were doing a trash clean-up hike at Pinewood, the lake near our homes, and were rewarded by the sight of a half-dozen fairy houses among the pines. Luckily, she knew what they were, or I would have walked right by.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Presumably, children built them while their parents fished, or maybe fairies truly did want to brighten our day; either way, it's a good story. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was worth almost getting run over ~ three times. I just had to get a close-up...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That hole in the sky kept changing, though, and at one point, it looked like a fiery hole above this ridge:</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The firefighters were on these two fires right away, and despite the dry conditions, the fires stayed small, and were out within 48 hours. Whew. Thank you, firefighters. All of you. Everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, and here's a parting shot I took just today. I call it "Heads or Tails?"</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-53504013626229817222012-09-02T16:02:00.002-06:002012-09-02T19:50:22.212-06:00Were You Gone?<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By my calculations, I haven't posted for 152 days. Did you miss me? :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I PROMISE to post every weekend, if not more often, and you don't break promises you put in writing. (You can't, you know, because people print them out and save them, just waiting for you to mess up...)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why the sudden motivation? To be honest, our local newspaper put a "call-out" to Loveland bloggers, and I wanted to be a part of that! </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even if I don't make the cut for the article, though, I'm still promising to blog, because I know so many of you out there have been checking faithfully every day to see if I've posted anything.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, maybe some of you have looked occasionally? </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Umm...maybe not. Sorry</b>.</span></div>
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">OK, so even my husband (that is not him above, by the way), my sweet husband of </span><u style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">over 17 years</u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, didn't notice I hadn't posted in almost five months. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Even </span><a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">The Pioneer Woman</a><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> had false starts with her now wildly popular blog, you know.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>OK, so like she often does, I made up that last part. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But I'm SURE she hasn't blogged EVERY day since 2006. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Or maybe she has, but she has nothing better to do. She stays at home on a ranch, homeschooling four kids, making delicious recipes, writing books, feeding livestock, taking amazing photos, and writing daily. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See what I mean? NOTHING better to do!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, read her posts Monday through Friday, then come back and see me. Every weekend. I promise.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-48535090531533581442012-04-03T23:07:00.000-06:002012-09-02T19:51:57.003-06:00A Month of Waiting<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course this would be the <u>only</u> March in 144 years of record-keeping by Colorado State University that there was no measurable precipitation in the Loveland-Fort Collins area; it's all because I told my students at the beginning of the month to watch for <b>all </b>the precipitation we'd be getting, because March is TYPICALLY one of our wettest months in Colorado. WRONG!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was that odd, pelleted form of snow that falls in Colorado in the spring.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The kind of snow that covers everything with a blanket of white: That's a baby lilac under the white blanket to the left...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and this is Jake, sporting the beginnings of <i>his </i>white blanket.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since the fleece insulates his skin, I guess it feels good after a few unseasonably warm days to literally "chill" out!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chocolate adores the snow, too, and immediately laid down to cool off his tummy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ben, however, was more interested in eating, but didn't want to share, so he pulled a big hunk of hay out from under the lean-to; none of the others was <strike>dumb</strike> tough enough to stand out in the snow to eat. Ben's evil plan worked!</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there was Lucy, who used to love to stand out in the snow and get soaking wet. As she ages, though...</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what does that say about Rodeo?!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On New Year's Eve day, a former co-worker of Gib's, Rick Shorts, came to visit with his wife Stella and daughter Alesha, both of whom had received alpaca scarves from him (woven by me!) for Christmas. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you to the Shorts for making the trip up the mountain to spoil our critters! What a great way to celebrate the-day-after-your-25th-wedding-anniversary (congrats)!</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-58240109385704452182011-12-25T18:40:00.000-07:002012-08-31T22:41:24.767-06:00A Merry, White Christmas: Who Could Ask for More?<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I may have been cursing the snow a few days ago, when it dampened (literally and figuratively) our plans on the last day of school before break, but only the Grinch wouldn't appreciate a white Christmas!</span><br />
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So when you don't have time to do something, you hire someone else to do it for you (if you can afford it), right? I've always wanted to do that for house cleaning, but could never get past the idea of cleaning up before the house cleaner arrived, so she wouldn't think I was a slob.</div>
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My sweet husband Gib has discovered that I haven't had time lately to warp either of my looms to make scarves, so he took it upon himself to <i>volunteer </i>for the job (at least he's affordable)! Think about it, though...a right-brained, engineering mind tackling the simple-but-tedious job of running little strings of yarn through tiny slots and holes, and making sure most of the ends are even...</div>
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...the results are shown in these photos ~ this is the SECOND loom Gib warped. After having trouble making the ends meet with the first attempt, he decided to create a way for "friction" to hold the ends until I could wind them on. </div>
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E.B. (he's the white alpaca next to Ben, both being held by my sweet husband Gib) was also extremely curious about a one-week-old baby swaddled against his momma ~ E.B. perked up his ears, and tried to stick his nose right in the baby's cloth carrier (how rude!). You could tell he was enchanted by this new smell!</div>
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I DO know that I had a wonderful time, watching a baby girl's face light up in the cutest smile as she touched a soft alpaca, and listening to another girl giggle with joy as she petted one of the boy's necks. Some children were timid, others were bold, but they were all sweet and kind to the alpacas. </div>
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Thanks to all of you who visited the boys ~ we hope you had a wonderful day! </div>
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<i>PS: Our new trailer signs were helpful ~ most of the drivers behind us stayed back a respectful distance, thanks to the little sign Gib thought up! </i></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-69430967471689533042011-09-24T05:42:00.000-06:002011-09-24T05:42:07.868-06:00The Break<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, my patient and long-suffering husband took over barn duties while I recuperated, and now I'm finally able to take care of the boys again!</div>
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"It's about time you came back," says E.B.</div>
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Today, we're off to the Harvest Festival at The Gardens at Spring Creek in Fort Collins (try saying that three times without knotting up your tongue). There will be ALL kinds of fun things for the family, from interesting critters to see, to old-fashioned games (burlap-sack race, anyone?) and a sing-along, to creative workshops (like "Country Chickens in City Gardens"). So what am I anticipating the most? </div>
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The Cupcake Cruiser!</div>
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<li>and a partridge in a pear tree (OK, it was actually a bag of dog treats, but you can't hum that).</li>
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</div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The-nice-man-behind-the-counter (I did not ask his permission to use his name, so I shall refrain from doing so) politely asked what type of car I was driving, and when I said, "the Mini," he looked at me with the same expression you get from your girlfriends when you tell them that you have finally found the-diet-that-will-work-<i>this</i>-time-really. <span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span></div><div style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I had to take one more picture to put it all in context, with the Mini beside the Durango, which used to be the "feed" car, and is now the "dog" car. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">After all, you can't expect a spoiled-rotten Border Collie to be comfortable in the tiny back seat of the Mini now, can you?</span><br />
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Harvesting fleece is the fun part! After a whole year of waiting, our boys were shorn on June 8. I carefully brushed each one of them beforehand, and left them in swept-out stalls with NO hay (what a mean Paca Mom)! Then, our shearer Steve Salter took over; he was ably assisted by his daughter Rebecca, and shearer-in-training Todd Westfall.</div>
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Below are the before and after photos of each alpaca; for more photos of the entire two-hour process, click <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/ColoradoHappyPacas/AlpacaShearing16811?authkey=Gv1sRgCKb61N2Ck7qvOg">HERE </a>~ please note, the photos may be a bit scary-looking; to shear an alpaca, you must stretch our its wrinkly skin, so the shearers stretch out the animal by pulling its legs out in each direction. It looks cruel, but it does <b>not</b> hurt the animal. That doesn't mean they don't complain a lot, until they hop up and realize they've lost a few scratchy pounds, then they run around like they are crias again!</div>
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Two days after the shearing (June 10), I attended my <i>first class ever</i> at the Estes Park Wool Market. Look at the setting outside our classroom window...amazing!<br />
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My sweet friend Liz Moncrief was teaching a dyeing class, and we spent the day luxuriating in color. The 13 students came from all over the country, including far-flung places such as New York and Texas, and I'm not sure what was more fun ~ learning how to create vibrant, make-your-heart-soar colored yarn, or spending time with fellow fiber fanatics who understood each other's passion for soft, silky fibers and all their possibilities! Below are just a few photos from the day; to see more, click <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/ColoradoHappyPacas/FiberColorDyeingClassWithLizMoncrief61011?authkey=Gv1sRgCPSn08ud5rr3Mg">HERE</a>.<br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Joanne Persichetti (right) modeled a vest she created from bulky knitting machine thread lace, and showed off the knife holder </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">she created on an inkle loom</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> (in her hand; I MISSED the great shot of Joanne pulling out a cardboard knife from the holder with a flourish!). "That's what it said it wanted to be," Joanne said with a laugh, of the knife holder.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Gale Daniels (below) created a lace scrug (a scarf-shrug) in multicolor mohair from a pattern in Cast-On Magazine.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What a great show!</span></span></div><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8614850914577303404.post-34293627837604924752011-06-05T23:35:00.000-06:002011-06-05T23:35:53.873-06:00Coming Soon: Fashion Show Photos!<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Saturday, the Northern Colorado Weavers' Guild held its annual Fashion Show ~ I'm still working on putting together all the photos and descriptions of the creative and lovely handmade items. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please check back soon; meanwhile, you are welcome to scroll down to read some of our older posts. (UPDATE on the June 2 posting: We got 30 bales of hay on Saturday, June 4! Even better, I didn't have to touch ANY of them, thanks to my sweet husband; love means putting up hay when the woman who wanted the animals in the first place has allergies!)</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0