So, how’s your year been?

Posted: December 31st, 2009 | Author: Hellchick | Filed under: Alpacas, Spinning | Tags: Alpacas, Knitting, logos, Spinning | Comments Off

It’s the end of a year and wow, what a year. I started 2009 off in a rocky financial situation, lost my job not once but twice, and yet somehow this has felt like the best year ever for me. I jumped into alpaca ownership after years of dreaming about it and it’s been far more rewarding than I ever thought it could be. And even though I lost my job twice it actually proved to be perfectly timed — I was able to take a job offer at Uber, where I’d wanted to work since they started it about a year ago, and it’s turned out to be the best job I’ve ever had, hands down. So all in all, despite the recession it’s been a pretty up year for me.

The alpacas don’t seem to get any less cute as time goes by. They’re getting fuzzier by the day and are starting to look more like teddy bears than they did when they arrived. In fact, it’s pretty funny to look at them now and then compare them to the pictures we took the day they got here, when their necks looked so skinny because they’d just been sheared.

They’ve finally acclimated to most of the fauna around our place. During the first few weeks in their new home every little nocturnal sound was a potential threat so we were constantly awakened at night with their alarm call (and one of these days I’m going to record it). Now that they’re more used to the place we actually haven’t heard it in a while…at least until winter changed the landscape a little.

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