In Etsy Land if you come across a shop that you want to mark as a favorite, you can click on the shop and "heart" them. I have been watching my hearts build this week and had made up my mind that I would gift the 1000th heart with a choice of anything in my shop. I didn't want to announce what I was going to do because it would feel rather phony, like I was begging for hearts.
Busy Day! Lady Belita had her cria this morning at 11:05. A white baby girl. We are going to call her Mira but can't decide to spell it with an i or a y. What do you think? The picture above was taken at 11:15 of her first attempts to get up and walk.
And here she is 30 minutes old taking a run around the pasture. Her fretful mom is behind and that's Lyra and Spot (2 weeks old now) getting caught up in her play.
Here she is at 35 minutes old meeting the fiber boys through the fence. That's Lady Belita behind her giving a fake spit warning to tell them not to get too close.
Because of all the confusion in the pasture, we carried Mira in to a pen to be just with her mom. She knows exactly where meals come from but not sure that Belita has much milk. Belita is really possessive about this, her 4th cria, and fake spits to warn us to stay away.... So we have been. Will weigh Mira and treat her navel tonight after they have had some time together. .jpg)
Beth and John picked Slammie (Orion) up last Friday to take him to a 4-H work session. At 165 pounds, he really fills up Beth's van now. ▲ They have been practicing walking up and down steps, side passing over a ground pole (I'm really impressed with this 'cause I remember how hard it was to teach my horse), going over jumps, backing, and turning inside a circle. The picture below show John at practice going over a tippy ramp..jpg)
Nancy Rogers and her mom Pat Slagell have started this Alpaca 4-H club and alpacas will be shown at the Alma Fair for the first time this year. I think they have about 15 kids in the group. If you would like to visit their alpacas and farm go here - Alpaca Family Farm.
For some reason I'm on a really, really big hat making kick. I'm averaging one every two days. I don't quite get this side of me. It's a little compulsive - like when I was making the Mobius Scarves. I can't wait to finish one so that I can get started on another. These are my own designs but I'm sure that I picked up the patterns somewhere in my past. Hopefully, I'm not really copying anyone. ♥ ♥ Remember, you can click to enlarge.
Etsy has really screwed up big time. They were adding new servers and somehow hundreds of us could not access Etsy. I wasn't able to get on from Friday afternoon until a couple of hours ago. Our provider, Casair in Stanton, MI, did some finagling for me this afternoon so that I could get in to my shop. Lots of bad feelings, negative energy over there so I'm staying away for a while. I just hope that no one tried to convo or buy from me in that time.
