Alpacas are fun creatures...

[msfledermaus]

I went to Whispering Oaks Alpaca farm today to pet things and buy roving and whatnot. Matthew took incriminating pictures of me smootching an alpaca while I was there...hey, the alpaca started it!! He was such a friendly little guy with big brown eyes, and when I was petting his neck he leaned in for a kiss. The farmer he belongs to kinda chuckled about it. "He's the really nice one, keep on smootching people when we take him out to shows and classes and stuff."

Actually I got to pet the alpacas, a horse, two dogs, and lots of knit stuff. I didn't pet any cats; they were too busy hiding from one of the toddlers running around. I ended up with about a half-pound of beautiful dark faun/grey roving that begs to be a sweater. I couldn't stop petting it all the time I was shopping. (Though I'm tempted to sell some of the finished spinning on Ebay, just to see how it goes. I can always get more of those colors, pretty much anytime, they tell me.) It's kind of sweet to have met the animals I'm spinning from:)

Now I'm full of dim sum and have a huge bag of fluffy fibers to play with. Life is awfully good right now...

Comments

[bbcaddict.livejournal.com]

that sounds like an awesome day!

[vwip.livejournal.com]

Alpaca-lips now! (As one of my other lj-friends might say...)

[scentedwoods.livejournal.com]

There's a new yarn store in da hood on University and Central (across the street from the Lunds ramp.)

It's beautiful and it has little doggies in it. A fat little pug type and a skinny little whippet type.

Just thought I'd pass the word along.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

I think I saw that place from a car window...I thought, "Nah, that can't be yarn; that's just too damn convenient, must be sweaters I'm looking at."

Too cool that is *is* a yarn store!!! Woowoo!