Cold, wet May

We are suffering through a cold, wet May in Nova Scotia.

We were fortunate here at Rocaro Alpacas to have two wonderful helpers from Australia this month. While we are not able to get much of the outdoor work started, let alone completed we are making great headway with inside chores. We have labelled all of the new shipment of socks and yarns, felted over a hundred bars of soap, made rope wreaths and made soap too.

We are having a great time - here the gals are enjoying some time in front of the woodstove.

New residents

This past week we started to see Tree Swallows hanging around the farm. We hurried off to get some Swallow houses and the birds were moved right in the next morning.

The tent went up and the tent came down!

We spent most of last Sunday constructing the 10 x 20 tent to provide our growing male herd with some additional shelter in the summer pasture. The wind was howling and the day was an exercise in futility.

Eventually we got the thing in place and well anchored down, or so we thought.

On Tuesday we came home after a dat in town only to find the wind had taken the tent down again.