Our new dishwasher came today! Did you know that you need to hire someone to put it in? I am not doing THAT. Okay so I am counting my lucky stars that I have myself a new dishwasher...what I really wanted was a Stihl weed-wacker but...Anyway a girl can dream.

I actually thought I could just sweet talk the delivery guy to install it. NOT. Apparently they don't do that. Who knew? Something about having to hard wire or something.

Well you have seen me take the spurs off a rooster, what should be scary about a little electricity and plumbing? Thank you YouTube!

The dishwasher is in- thank you very much. It does have a little leak on the hot water line that I will fix tomorrow with a plumbers tape. I just don't seem to have any around.

I would come put yours in but well you can't afford me! The hourly rate would break you.

Did I mention they were Donkeys?

Scared you didn't I?
Welcome Pink Lady and Marika!!!
Thank you Lum Family!

Anyone familiar with Jeff, my farm man, and I know that we have been discussing adoption for almost a year. We have researched, visited and interviewed. Well it all came together on Sunday, a little sooner than we both thought.

We are both thrilled with our new girls. The boys are over the moon especially Luke. All he wants to do is take check on them, take care of them and love them. The girls were living with a family here on the island but were both born in Canada. I'll get some pictures up tomorrow. If I get them taken.

It is all very exciting!

You know it is fall when I have to get up earlier than Frank the rooster to get my kids to crew practice. I love when I get to wake up the rooster- payback!

Visit the Orcas Island Rowing Association.

Just passing along a few photos we took during shearing this year. It was one of the few half-way dry days we have had in a while. Enjoy!

It has been raining nonstop here on the farm. I think as a summer project I might build an ark. On the upside the grass is growing right before my eyes. On the down side the garden is still too wet to plant in many areas. What a change from last years scorching June!

The show season continued to be a challenge. The competition was fierce. It is hard to compete with farms that have 50+ babies to choose from each year. I brought everything that I had and was delighted to take home more than my fare share of ribbons.

Northwest Alpaca Showcase:

Cimarron, Autumn Diva (aka Munchin Martian), and Sage Prince (aka Buddy) all took home some hardware. Kahana and I were lucky enough to have Jeff's aunt along from Sun Valley to help with all of the animals and making sure we made it to the ring on time.


Columbia Alpaca Breeder Association:

Our best show, in my most humble opinion was the Columbia Alpacas Breeder Association the CABA Classic. Interestingly this show last year proved to be our toughest for us. Funny huh? Cimarron, Buddy, Diva and Summer all came away with ribbons. I was most delighted with Summers performance. White is notoriously the most difficult classes and we were able to pull off a fourth!!!! (White is challenging because there are a large number of breeders that breed only white. White fleece is most useful as it can be dyed any color.)
This was Luke's (my eight year olds) first show and he was amazingly helpful and a fine showman in the ring too!