The Halfway House

Argentine LaLado left, Little Tyme middle and Argentine Saltador yesterday morning.


The girls enjoying their new pasture and green grass. I can see them outside of every window from the farm house now. I just love it! They are so far out that they aren't coming in for me, for grain, for anything. Good for them. This is as close to paradise that they've been in. 60 acres of roaming, ponds, forests and green grass. I'll probably never see them again.



Milkweed catches my eye whenever I'm outside this time of year. It is a really cool plant.




The guest house..."The Halfway House" we're naming this for reasons obvious and maybe not so obvious! Let's just go this far; it is going to be placed halfway between right and wrong!

What a week! Here is the guest house now dubbed, "The Halfway House" for obvious reasons and not so obvious! Let's just say this much, it is going to be placed "halfway between right and wrong!" The girls were released into their new pasture. What a beautiful site. I can see them out of every window of our house. I just love it. The milkweed is interesting and catches my eye everytime I go out in the pastures. Enjoy your week.

MEA weekend in Minnesota

Here is Blake with his new "fro" for Halloween!
Poor Chilly tore her knee tendons during a breed check! I feel SO badly for her. She is getting grain, special hay and fresh water INSIDE our big barn for the next week.
As my farm manager, I don't think Blake planned on this being part of the package....at least he hoped the female looked better to Saltador than he did!
Jim and I went out in the woods looking for arrowheads and found these weird things growing on the trees.
We went to a craft fair, picked out our pumpkins, did more breedings and breed checks and rode horses. Grandma and Grandpa came to visit and we had a lot of good fun and laughs. Dave is working on a very cool deer stand in a double secret woods location. His cell phone works so I know he can't be all that far away!

It's Fall (and what we're doing about it!)

It's fall and we've done an incredible amount of work and changes at our farm. Today I picked Macintosh apples...a bushel of them. I piled all my barnboard birdhouses under the deck and soon into storage until next spring. My stud llamas are all up at the house. Why is this a big deal? Because at Ground Zero there is not an adequate shelter and there is not an automatic waterer. Now they have TWO shelters, a 20 acre pasture and an automatic waterer. Life is getting better.

Finally our buffalo are gone. Yup, that's right. Gone. As in not at our farm. Not ours any longer. You know relocated, gone. Buffalo Steve from Caledonia with our herd now has a staggering 300 head to boast about.

Minnesota Minis is building a guest house for all our friends coming to visit our llamas. The guest house will be available for free to our llama friends. Others may enjoy our area for their antiquing, hiking, biking and trout fishing treks and stay at a cost of $75 a night. So those are the major changes to our lives.

It is fall and we are starting the hunkering down process.