Saturday’s Wild and Wooly Alpaca Expo went well, the attendance from the public was down from last year but with local elections going on, one of the largest craft fairs in the US taking place just up the road and the Louisiana State University Football team playing in Baton Rouge there were plenty of other distractions in the area. There was a steady stream of people all day and who knows what today will bring.
During the day I got to meet several alpaca breeders from the Louisiana and as always it was good to get together and exchange ideas and learn from each other.
The Expo had a small fleece show and I was able to spend some time in the fleece room, which is always time well spent. The judge was Shannon McConnell from Illinois, who with the fleece judging now over will today be giving an educational seminar on what judges are looking for in the show ring.
My fleece skirting seminar seemed to be well received, it was a much more condensed version than I usually give but the attendees said that they learnt a lot and hopefully they walked away with more confidence in preparing their fleeces for showing. Today I will have to be mindful of the timing of my presentation as I have to make sure that I get to the airport in time to return my rental car and catch my flight home. Hopefully I will find my way back to the airport easier than trying to find my way out of the airport area.
I did speak to Ric today, no news on Chai to report and today the weather in Clovis is forecast to be windy and very cold so the chances are she will not have her cria today as alpacas usually birth in fine weather. We really don’t want a cria being born on a cold windy day so let’s hope she holds onto her cria until a warmer day.
When I spoke to Ric he was getting ready to do some unexpected work – he discovered water leaking from our well house while doing morning chores. Not a good thing, let’s hope it’s something that’s easy to fix!
A Taste of Life at Windrush Alpacas 