A miscellany like Grandma’s attic in Taunton, MA or Mission Street's Thrift Town in San Francisco or a Council, ID yard sale in cloudy mid April or a celestial roadmap no one folded—you take your pick.
Heh, heh! Alpaca heaven. I miss seeing Alpacas and Llamas. There are lots in RI; sheep ranchers keep Llamas to guard their flocks from Coyotes, and they'll also raise Alpacas for the wool to add variety to the sheep wool they also sell. But I haven't seen any sheep around here, just cows and horses, and although there are Coyotes in PA, they're not in this particular area. And yes, I also miss seeing the occasional Coyote; they're so people-shy that it's a reward to actually see one.
Roy: Interesting about Rhode Island--I wouldn't have guessed that. There was a big llama & alpaca boom in this part of the west in the 80s-early 90s, which is ultimately where this alpaca & our one surviving llama (we had three others at one point) came into the picture. We got the llamas & alpaca by leasing the pasture as a sort of "retirement home" for a handful of animals that came from a now defunct high-end llama ranch. But you're right: llamas are excellent guards for sheep, & there's also a fair amount of sheep ranching out here, so you see them doing that as well.
Glad to see the alpacas over there. Just a few miles from where we live is the wonderful old village of Saltaire where Sir Titus Salt built his mill, his model village and his fortune. And that fortune - and mill and village - were the product of his innovative use of alpaca wool.
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Heh, heh! Alpaca heaven. I miss seeing Alpacas and Llamas. There are lots in RI; sheep ranchers keep Llamas to guard their flocks from Coyotes, and they'll also raise Alpacas for the wool to add variety to the sheep wool they also sell. But I haven't seen any sheep around here, just cows and horses, and although there are Coyotes in PA, they're not in this particular area. And yes, I also miss seeing the occasional Coyote; they're so people-shy that it's a reward to actually see one.
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ReplyDeleteRoy: Interesting about Rhode Island--I wouldn't have guessed that. There was a big llama & alpaca boom in this part of the west in the 80s-early 90s, which is ultimately where this alpaca & our one surviving llama (we had three others at one point) came into the picture. We got the llamas & alpaca by leasing the pasture as a sort of "retirement home" for a handful of animals that came from a now defunct high-end llama ranch. But you're right: llamas are excellent guards for sheep, & there's also a fair amount of sheep ranching out here, so you see them doing that as well.
Doug: Thanks!
Glad to see the alpacas over there. Just a few miles from where we live is the wonderful old village of Saltaire where Sir Titus Salt built his mill, his model village and his fortune. And that fortune - and mill and village - were the product of his innovative use of alpaca wool.
ReplyDeleteAnd now I can go to bed happy.
ReplyDeleteHi Caroline: Hey, me too then! Thanks!
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