I know, it's hard for us to believe, too. But they really and truly are here, safe and sound on our very own land. Whew! Here's how it went this last weekend:
On Friday Joel loaded up a friend's horse trailer to his truck and we hitched our largest trailer on my car. Away we went over the river and thru the woods and down off the Plateau to Tanasi Trace Alpacas. It was another hot and humid day early and we had decided to haul equipment first and then get the alpacas on Saturday.
It only took us a little over an hour to load hay and feeding troughs into the trailer behind my car. Inside the car went all their meds, books, files, a microscope and centrifuge.
It took us a lot longer to decide where to place all this new paraphernalia inside our super clean barn. The wood pallets work really well as a base on which to stack the square bales of hay. We were just happy to get the hay home nice and dry. Later on that day the heavens opened up which made us glad to have the hay all stored deep inside our barn where it won't mold.
Early Saturday we arrived at Tanasi once again, ready for the adventure to begin. We pulled our borrowed horse trailer up to the boys side on the left, while Fred and Carol pulled our newly acquired trailer from them up to the girls side on the right.
Carol and Fred had the animals all corralled in the barn, which made it a whole lot easier to begin loading them onto the trailers. Sorta......the boys were a whole lot more cooperative than the girls were, but more on that later.
Once the gates were opened, Fred walked behind the boys....shooing them out of their comfort zone. Carol and her friend, Hannah, had haltered the two "lead" alpacas and they walked them into the trailer and the rest of the boys just followed them inside. Hmmmm, I started to think this was going to be pretty easy. Wrong!
I'll send you more in a bit.....my photo program isn't cooperating again. Aargh!
Deb
