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We left Frankie on his own for one day, and then the next day, since he seemed to keep up next to the fence where the two boys (Sumac and Orlando) were, we decided to let him in with them.
We kept checkign that he was Ok and not being bullied. Later, near evening time, Sumac decided to “use” Frankie, and got very amorous with him. Frankie didn’t seem to object, but after the event frankie was bleeding from the mouth. We had to catch him and check him. It appeared he had bitten his tongue and was dripping blood everywhere.
We kept an eye on him, but put Sumac and Orlando back in their own paddock and kept Frankie in his usual one.
The bleeding stopped quite quickly and soon he was munching away as usual.
This morning (the day after the event) Frankie ate his grain as normal and seemed not at all put out by the events of yesterday.
Alpacas seem to be very resilient animals!

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I did some mowing this morning. I had started last week and mowed the front lawns and the back first bit, round by our pool and by the new paddock that we are in the process of putting in. So this morning I thought I would start on the back three acres. I never got once round before the mower gave up….. it still would go but the blades did not cut. I stopped the mower, got off and looked underneath, determining that the drive belt was loose and for some reason the bit that held the blade and the belt was lower than it should be.
When hubby got home he looked at it and determined that I had broken the bit that held this up.. a big thick chunk of a bit that would be diifficult to break!
We took it in to be fixed, and luckily they had the part and within two hours we fetched it home…. Complete now with new drive bit, and new blades.
Let’s hope that there are no more big stones that I can hit that would weaken my mower and bend my blades!

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Thanks to my daughter, yet again, for sorting out my problems on my blog. She has it up and working again and has even given it a new look. So Thank You, my lovely daughter!

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I started on my second latch hook rug the other day. It is a scene with a mountain view. I have already done about 20 sets of ten by ten rows.
However, doing the last ten by ten, I suddenly realised I was going to be cutting it fine at the top of the rug. I counted the rows left to do. Sure enough, the pattern will take me right to the top of the rug. Which now means I will have to finish the rug about four or five rows short.
I wish I had looked at the beginning instead of trusting that they had printed their pattern in the correct place! I checked sideways! Why or why did I not check top to bottom?!!

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Wow! What a lot of snow we have had these last four weeks! I think we have had at least the amount we normally have all through the winter. This year not only are we having a lt of snow, but the snow we are having is NOT going away. Usually the snow that falls on our rooves fall off after a day or so.
This year the snow is STILL on the rooves. Some of it has melted a little, and formed icicles on its way down. BUT it has NOT fallen off the roof with a WHOOOOMP! That is still to happen!
I heard the news tonight about the road conditions. Avalanches are a problem in many areas.
Indeed the Hope-Princeton Hwy (Hwy 3)is closed near the Manning Park area, both lanes (both ways);
the area East of Christina Lake is closed bot h ways (Hwy 3) , (the Paulson Summit area), and the Coquihala is closed too. Also an area near Hope on Hwy 1.
To the south of Grand Forks, in the USA there is a Flood warning for Coleville.
So, if anyone wants to go far from Grand Forks, it is going to be very difficult tonight and maybe for the next few days!!

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A Happy New Year to you all.
May 2009 bring you all that you wish for;
health, wealth and happiness!

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I have a new web page. We recently got some new material for our dining room chairs. Although the chairs were only about two years old, the material on them was a cream color and had got stained with wine, paw prints, and from our work clothes when we would sit on the seats before changing our dirty clothes! The web page tells how we re-upholstered the chairs and also has a power point presentation with photos of the proceedure.
I have been finding it difficult to put photos on the site that are jsut little thumbs. So my way around it was putting the photos onto powerpoint, then uploading the power point presentation.

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We are excited as our girl alpaca arrives tomorrow! Sasha is the new girl. She is about 15 months old and is the sister of Chopaka (male, single registered)and the half sister of Sumac (male,single registered). They all share the same mother, Keremeos (single registered), and she will be coming too along with a baby of hers so that Sasha (siingle registered) will not be lonely.
Alpacas need to have company. One on their own is no good as they get lonely. And since we can’t have our boys in with any female in case they mate, and particularly with Sasha who is a close relative, then we have done the next best thing to buying a couple of girls, and that is borrowing them!
Female alpacas are expensive to buy, more expensive than male alpacas. Double registered alpacas (those registered in Canada and the USA) are more expensive than single registered (those registered in just one country).
Sasha should be pregnant. Sasha is dark brown in color and Caesar, the male she was mated with, is a light brown color so we are hoping that the offspring will have brown fleece. We thi8nk she is pregnant as she spits and kicks at the male once she has “taken”. The cria, or baby,shoul dbe due about 11 months after mating, which means sometime around about September she should give birth!
We (the Royal “we” here…meaning mainly my husband!) have cleaned up the paddock where the horses used to be, fenced a new area off and made the shelter more suitable for the alpacas. Plus we have a heated bucket for the water for the females and more hay coming tomorrow to make sure they all have enough to eat over the winter.
Chopaka should be pleased to see the females. We took our males down to the neighbours alpaca farm (Sunshine Valley Alpacas) while we went to England and they stayed there for three weeks. (this is the farm that has Sasha and Keremeos and her baby, plus many other females,most of them double registered and the farm where we got our male, white, blue eyed (unregistered) Frankie.) When we got our alpacas back and walked them down the road back to our farm all but Chopaka were pleased to be home. Chopaka however spent many days looking over the gate to see if he could escape back down the road!!
I wonder what he will make of having females around?!

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I can’t believe it is so long since I last blogged! I had great difficulty the times before that and nothing would get published. Then I got out of the habit! Now so much has happened i dont quite know what to write first!
We have new young alpaca. he is called Frankie Blue Eyes and is white and has blue eyes. It seems a lot of this coloured alpaca with blue eyes are deaf and Frankie is no exception. He is deaf. However he is equally lovable as the other two. The difference is when it comes to breeding Frankie’s offspring cannot be certified. The other two alpacas are Canadian registered.
I bought a Wii!!!! Now I am addicted to tennis, bowling, golf and baseball. The boxing has not captured me yet though I did knock a few people to the groudn when I was last in the UK playing it!
I have read 11 novels and have at last got roudn to giving a very quick review of each of them.
We have had our water leak seen to in the back yard. This involved getting a digger in to dig up the earth to a depth of six feet or thereabouts. We got a new water pipe laid out to the stable and also to the cottage. Leak mended! the drive has now been resurfaced as well as the area outside the workshop.
We have had a patio door installed in place of our dining room window. Our dining room is now our new lounge and our old lounge is now our dining room!
We have extended our deck on the side of the patio door. It has been sanded, washed and is awaiting a day or two before we put the stain on!

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Am wondering if blogging will once again work!

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