Pictures of my swap gifts from Val!

This is such wonderfully soft wool!
and my wretched dog tore into the package!!
Bad Dog!
Thankfully I can still spin it, I just won't get the pleasure of
spinning from the delightful little bundles that Val prepared for me.
A few of them were still intact so I know what a great job she did
but lots of my soft corriedale is mixed with Husky fluff!

Here are the rest of the goodies :)
Do you see the unassuming jar of body cream in the center of the braid??
This is some of the nicest stuff! Thank You Val!!
and the baggie to the side is
Angora bunny fluff. YUMM!

See what happened when I finally left to run errands?

This little guy was waiting in the nursery pasture when I got home. So I run inside to grab the cria kit for iodine - and the camera - and head back out to the barn.

Mom was checking him out while everyone got to know the new kid

Autumn, you did good. Isn't he cute??

Wait a minute, did I get this wrong??

No, it turns out Glow has nose and toes showing too and I'm thinking "Oh my, why does this always happen when Del is on the road?" so we shift gears, put the camera away for a bit and focus on Glow and her delivery. It becomes obvious very quickly that we need some help and I'm incredibly thankful that we live so near the University of Missouri! The vet and a couple of students were out here in just a few minutes. There were a few tricky problems with the cria's position and I am ever so grateful they were able to save Glow, however the cria didn't make it.
I'm skipping the delivery pictures, and will just leave you with this,

This little guy has nursed from both Glow and Autumn and Autumn seems content to share him with Glow. We still have one more llama due and I'm hoping for an easy delivery and peace in the pastures.