We've got chickens!

Well the day has finally arrived. We have chickens in the back yard. Four barred rock juveniles. Here they are hiding under the house my husband so painstakingly built. The kids are very excited. Until they realize they have to clean up after them. They had fun going to get them too, the lady we bought them from had just about everything under the sun with wings and pot bellied pigs on top of it. She had two litters of pigs less than a week old.

On a totally separate note I thought I'd try to needle felt a hat out of raw Llama fiber today. Not sure how it's going yet but I don't think I like working with the forms I currently have. That and I'm not sure I'm doing it right, it seems to stretch out and instead of a small hat I end up with a large. Trial and error. That's why I'm using the llama and not my lovely alpaca. I don't want to waste it on experiments. I'll work out the kinks with the llama and then make a final product with the alpaca.

Also, I was invited to join an alpaca forum, alpcasocial.com, where the members can chat live, ask questions, exchange info and generally benefit from a wide variety of knowledge. It's a great initiative and whoever thought of it deserves a big pat on the back.

I'm heading up to Nottingham Hollow Alpacas tomorrow to skirt some prime blankets for show, one more thing on my to do list will be knocked off!