EDR Lamas’ Weblog

Another long time between postings, but we have been busy. Sometimes I’m not sure doing just what, but the days go by quickly. We are working with Llewis and Cllark for the ‘On the Trail with Llewis and Cllark’ hikes, and getting ready for last weekend’s National Alpaca Farm Days.

This was the first year we were part of NAFD. I think last year we were at the Llama Futurity Show winning 4th place in a class of 22 beautiful female suri llamas. I’m still proud of my girl for doing that! This year the Futurity was a week earlier than the NAFD, so we could do both! And by the way, Sweet-n-Tart, the girl who did so well last year, is becoming a mommy now! She is in Michigan at New Venture Suris being bred to M.R.S. Night Vision — a VERY nice suri boy who is producing exceptional babies. It will be rough to sell her and know I’ll probably never see the offspring of that match, but sell her I must.

At any rate, NAFD went well for us. We had a at least 60 visitors, possibly not as many as some, but enough for us for our first year. We had interest in llama and alpaca buying, and did sell some fiber and one of my llama dolls. We got our store set up in a better way than before, and now it is set up smaller than for the weekend, but still very nice — and permanent. I also learned what to do to make next year’s NAFD a bigger success – it may be as the Hot Mama Llama, but that’s okay! As long as people come, enjoy themselves, and spend money!!

Next thing on the list is getting Spicey Hot ready to sell, and send out the e-mails and other advertising for her. I do hope she sells, but I will bring her home rather than give her away. One thing I’m going to do is offer to bring her to her new home if it is somewhere other than the east or west coast, and will share the cost [or keep her until spring] for those too far away to bring her myself. Maybe that will spark some interest. The prices at LFA were not bad, and some were pretty darn good, so we’ll see.

Enough for tonight. I still have to put some numbers together for our meeting tomorrow and check on the LFA prices I didn’t get before — oh yes, we also found a great new home for Kitten Kaboodle at the LFA! YAY!!!