More House Viewings

Well we have now changed over to our new estate agents and things are looking better already, we have two more house viewings already book over the next few days, so that quick work for our new agents but lets not get to carried away we have been here before!!

Well are visit to Jeff & Sheila at Easter-Wood Alpaca Stud is getting closer (not that we are counting down the days) we are always made very welcome and are very grateful to them both for giving up there time to help us gain our husbandry skills, we will of course return our gratitude to all that are helping us on our journey to become quality Alpaca Breeders.

So fingers crossed again please for the house to go :)

Hopes Are Dashed!

Well the viewing of our house that we were expecting never happened, allegedly he was stuck at the vets, but the estate agents could not get hold of him again to re-arrange, I smell something fishy!

We are still in good spirit as we are changing estate agent anyway and adjusting the price so hopefully this will have a fresher appeal to purchasers.

I'm also in need of updating my Internet connection as I am behind the times and still use Dial-up, and after waiting nearly half an hour to download some pictures and receiving a hefty phone bill its time to move forwards to broadband, we have not gone onto broadband as we are waiting until we sold the house and know where we are going, can you take broadband with you like your land line number? sorry if this sounds thick to some, but I have not look into it at all yet. Anyone with good suggestions please comment, all help here will be much appreciated.

We have been invited to visit Jeff & Sheila at Easter-Wood Alpaca Stud again for some more husbandry experience, so with this visit coming up it has given us another boost of excitement and determination to keep pushing for our dream to come alive.

Hopes Are High Again!

Well we have another house viewing tomorrow, so its fingers crossed please that its a success, if only we could sell, then are dream can really start.

We have all been ill since our last posting, which has really knocked us for six, it was so unfair to see Lily struggling with this bug but thank fully we are all back to good health.

We are waiting for our hay to be cut and baled but are waiting for the weather to change, I just hope we have not missed the window for the sunny weather! I will post again with hopefully good news from the house viewing.

Fantastic day with Alpaca's

What a fantastic day we have had today, myself, Lisa & Lily have visited our new friends Jeff & Sheila at Easter-Wood Alpaca Stud (www.easterwoodalpacas.co.uk) for some hands on husbandry skills and lambivac injections. This is the first time for me and Lisa to actually get hands on with Alpaca's and be involved with assisting with spit-off, we did feel for Ice Cool Lad who was more than happy to service his ladies, but unfortunately had to be patient for a while, until later on in the afternoon when he finally got his way with Black Magic I'm sure he showed her a trick or two!! :)
Jeff & Sheila are an absolute fantastic couple with lots of advice and enthusiasm, we hope to buy our Alpaca's from Jeff & Sheila, as soon as we are the position to do so.
We were recommended to Jeff & Sheila by Rob & Lesley Rawlins from Wellground Alpaca Stud (www.wellground.com) and what a fantastic and worthwhile recommendation that is. We look very much forwards to working with both Jeff & Sheila and Rob & Lesley in the future, hopefully we will return all the help given in the following years to come. If you are ever in need of advice, these are the people to ask.

A busy week fencing

Well its been a busy week for myself and Lisa, we are also renting 4 acres of land as well as our own 5 & half, the gentleman that owns the land ask us if we would put the fencing up for him, of course we said we would, after all its going to benefit us more when we get our Alpaca's. He had all the kit we needed including a machine to bore the holes in the ground, surely this was going to be a nice easy job!!
How wrong we were, after setting the machine in the ground for the first hole, it starts to drive its self into the ground, fantastic, oh spoke to soon! 4" into the ground and it stops going down anymore, I remove the machine clear the hole of soil to reveal solid clay that the machine wont touch, so its down to breaking it up as best as we can with a spade and try the process again, another 3" and its machine out, spade back in! only another 70 holes to go! oh I forgot 2 new gate posts to put in too. :)
Lily our daughter has also been busy, this Saturday 13th was our village carnival with the theme of "Aliens" with Lily only being 20 mths of age she found it all a bit strange, why have mum and dad painted my face green! and put me in strange clothes, she was not amused. ( photo's can be viewed on the village website www.thurlastononline.co.uk )

Im still trying to learn

We are still just as committed as ever to make our dreams come true, we are desperatly trying to sell our house to fund our dream. We keep having veiwings but just no sale, it gets very annouying, we have been very lucky to have Rob & Lesley from Wellground Alpaca's to keep us from going insane.

If you have been trying to follow our blog and waiting for updates I am trying to find the time to update more often, watch this space.

Im learning more

I have managed to import a blog! Robs Alpaca Blog. Rob and Lesley are a very close to our hearts as they are the best in our eyes in breeding top quality Alpacas there website and Robs blog are a must to visit and read. www.wellground.com