Do you love autumn?

It's about my favorite time of year. This is the view from my window next to the computer. Soon we'll have the alpacas in the pasture just on the other side of the tree and I'll be able to enjoy them for a while too.

Home with Quinn and Alicia

Sorry this is so fuzzy. Alicia and Kristy both seem to keep moving ;) I have some great help with the alpacas these days! We'll be moving Alicia into the boy alpaca pen later today because she's still well under a year old and I want to set her up to succeed. Keeping her with the females when it's cria season just isn't the best plan.
Now that Quinn is here to guard the sheep, I'm able to move them out into further pasture. They'll still be somewhat close to the house for a few weeks, we're not far from the Missouri River and have seen some flooding recently which is pushing the wild life a little closer to the pastures .
This is the picture I see most often when I look out the window. I can barely make a noise and Quinn looks up to make sure it's just me. I love these new additions to the farm!

Quinn and Alicia have arrived

This is Quinn, trying to get comfortable for the night. Can you see how tall he is? He was sharing floor space with Alicia and another litter mate that was traveling part of the way with us. I have to tell you, if you ever thought about getting a large guard dog for your farm, you won't go wrong by calling Jackie Church at Windance Farms! These dogs are WONDERFUL!

They travelled like pro's and had wonderful manners. It didn't take hardly any time for them to learn to get their leash clipped on and follow us where we needed to go, then hop back into the truck and let us unclip their leashes.

But the real treat was getting home.

Bye Bye Susie

You'll be heading to your new home soon.

I Love Spring

Can you see the turkey? just to the right of the little cedar tree, he's really big. This is the field out back of the barn, I'm really bad about estimating distances but I know he was at least 50 yards from me. I guess he was feeling pretty safe in our field, I generally don't allow hunters here so even though it was turkey season he still strolled around the field like he owned the place.

I just love it when the redbuds are in bloom, the mayapples are up and the pastures get green. Soon everything will be lush and the dogwoods will be blooming with the peonies not far behind.

If anybody knows what this plant is, please leave me a comment. The leaves remind me of a slow growing, variegated mint but I've never seen these flowers before. It's really happy under a big old elm tree. I'd love to know what it is.