Family Day on the Farm

It has been a lovely day in all sorts of ways today.

To start with Mike had to deliver two of our black females to Inca Alpacas for mating to one of their top stud males, Canchones Witness of Inca, who has an excellent pedigree and we hope his genes will enhance our herd. We have already had a beautiful female cria by E P Cambridge Centurian (also standing at Inca Alpacas) from our Reserve Champion Brown Female, Laurel's Saphire and we are hoping that that Witness will provide two more black cria next year.

Whilst he was away, our latest grandson, Josh, arrived with number 3 son and his wife and mother in law. They are staying until Saturday evening and are taking the opportunity to explore the area. They went to Lime Regis today and intend to go to Lynton and Lynmouth tomorrow.

As it was a warm evening we decided to eat al fresco and I cooked a spicy stir fry with rice, jacket potatoes, salad followed by rhubard crumble and ice cream, to appeal to Chris's wife, Aew and her mother who is over from Thailand on a month's visit. They cleared their plates, so they must have appreciated the meal.

Don Alario, our main herd sire, has been getting a little above himself lately and so we have separated him from the rest of the males. He looked so pathetic this evening and stood at the gate of his individual paddock asking to come into the garden, so I let him in. Nothing to do with the copious amount of Brut Cava I consumed whilst cooking the dinner!!.

He immediately started munching on our slightly overgrown lawn and seemed to appreciate the company. After a while he got bored and started humming and so I opened the gate and he trotted back to his lonesome paddock, had a few beers and went to sleep.