Another Road Trip

We made a short road trip Sunday to visit one of the premier llama breeders in our area.It was a rare opportunity to talk with someone who has been in the business of raising llamas for over thirty years in this area. We spent a very pleasant three hours conversing and admiring his barn full of llamas and  alpacas. The reason for our visit was to obtain some of the fiber from this award winning herd. We brought home half a van full so Ann has been sorting and checking it all out. The pic is some gorgeous pure black.

 I didn't know we would get the chance to see his herd and didn't have my camera with me. He had one pen with a dozen or so baby llamas that were being weaned from their moms and one new baby with her mom that was only two days old. It is hard to imagine anything cuter than those baby llamas, which by the way, are called "cria'.
 It will take a week or so to get all this fiber sorted out and graded but it will be worth the effort to be able to offer such high quality fiber to our customers. I plan on doing a longer  post on this breeder soon so I'll save the rest till then.