Llamas, fencing, and AHHH!

So we are getting llamas! Four to be exact. It's strange. Every person I've told this to gives me a sideways look as though I might be seriously losing my sanity. Which is a distinct possibility. But ANYWAYS -- I found free llamas on craigslist and seized opportunity. They're coming with an impressive amount of free supplies and hay to come with them. The woman is even giving us free fencing. Apparently, she's an older woman and is downsizing her farm. So her loss is our gain in this particular aspect. I don't anticipate that we will keep all of them permanently but for the time being they can help us eat down the property and protect our other animals from coyotes or persistant stray dogs.

But of course... we don't have a pen set up yet. Eh ha-hahaha-ha. How hard could it be really? Putting up a fence? Dig some holes, plop in a post, some cement, staple the fence to said post. Riiiiight. Except after some

blazing hot weather, it finally decides to rain. Right smack dab on the week that I need to get this fence in for incoming llamas. Funny. Reeeal funny Washington. Plus i

discovered that concrete is NOT cheap and y

ou need quite a large quantity of it for fencing. SIGH. But we persevere and move forward. Seems we might need to postpone the pick up of the llamas anyhow because the woman called and said this Sunday wouldn't work and Saturday doesn't work for us, so again, might need to push it out. Which at this rate would not be a bad thing. We still need to build a lean-to shelter as well as pen for incoming goats. We're slating goats for next month though.

So it's been feeling like a lot of crunchtime recently but with the bad weather its putting a greater strain on our time resources. In two short weeks I'll be going back to work for the school district and our schedules will be even more hectic than they are right now! We're pushing to finish the shed but Hank is laid up with a bad back and while Whitney and I can finish up the framing, we really need his expertise to move

forward with the siding and roofing part of the project. Which, because its raining, really needs to happen sooner rather than later.

This is our first harvest though we've collected quite a bit since this picture was taken. Even made our first zucchini bread!