Alpacas!

We love alpacas! Okay, well, we're just suckers for animals in general. Alpacas are just so darned cute...and kid-friendly. Someday we would love to have a few acres and maybe, just maybe, a couple alpacas just for fun. Yes, we're nuts.

Each year around this time there is a weekend when many of the alpaca farms in the region open their farms to the public for tours. There are a couple farms within a mile or two from us, so we take the opportunity to visit. There is also the benefit of space and everything is so, well, farmy, so the boys can't do too much damage!

On a sad note, our dear beta fish, "Red Car" (Yes, our eldest named him. He always names things for the whatever he is looking at at the moment. We all hope this changes before he has children of his own! Imagine that one!), is now swimming in the crystal seas of Heaven, tumor-free. The poor thing had a tumor on his chest that was nearly as wide as he was long, so after letting him suffer for a few weeks, we finally got up the nerve to cryogenically suspend him (ie. put him in the freezer, which is apparently what the professionals at PetsMart recommend as the most humane way to do it) Now as to what we do with our little beta-cicle in a cup, I'm not so sure. Hubby suggests putting the block in the toilet until it thaws a little, then flushing him. We'd have to do it overnight, so one of the boys doesn't happen upon a little red frozen fish by accident. This was the same reason why we didn't throw him over the back fence -- so our hunter kitty didn't bring home a surprise. Fun times, fun times.