A cold morning in PA., the sun was just coming up and only one llama dares to meet the cold day!

Here I am with the boys. Rapscallian is in the rear with High Brow and Sebastian standing in front. Behind us is one of our local covered bridges.

This is Willow and I getting ready to go to a church dayschool for a visit to learn about llamas. We go to nursing homes too..the residents get a real kick out of them coming right into the building!

At least once a month our "Fiber Group" gets together to work on our "wool related projects". We recently got a new felting machine.

Here are a few more pictures of our "farm". Taken at the crack of dawn on a cold winter morning.

This is "Octavia" and her cria (baby) "Willow" and I as I was halter training the baby at the other llama farm where I do some work. I ended up buying both of them! How could I resist...she was whispering in my ear..."take us home".

This is an all llama wool-felted panel our fiber group made for our 2000 Llama Conference in Vermont. Sixteen different areas of the East coast members of the Greater Appalachian Llama and Alpaca Association designed their own panels. We then shipped them to be joined together at conference to make a "yurt" which is a nomadic tent made from wool. Indigenous People in Mongolia live in yurts made of wool from yaks and sheep I believe.

This is a view of the finished "yurt" at conference.

Above is our 12 member drillteam...we do coreographed marches to different songs while leading our llamas making a pretty impressive sight. One of our yearly performances is held at Hershey Park (amusement park in PA.) where over 5ooo people visit our exhibits and watch us perform for two days. It's a great way to promote our wonderful critters.

This is "Sebastian" and I going over a bridge in an obstacle course competition at a local fair. It was our first time with 17 other competitors and their llamas. We took first place and a blue ribbon! This is another one of the fun things we like to do with our llamas. They seem to enjoy doing new and exciting things and learn very quickly when they have trust in their handlers.

Our granddaughter "Allyssa" visiting with "Sebastian". She loves the llamas and has known all eight by name from the age of two!

The following picture is what got me totally addicted to llamas and was the start of a whole new lifestyle. This is an orphaned "cria" (baby llama) I offered to try to raise her for a neighbor as they didn't know what to do with her. Sooo...I named her "Pandora" and made a temporary pen in our attached garage as I had to bottle feed her every three hours 24 hours a day for about 3 months. I wasn't keeping her! Yeah...right. This was July of 1996 and as of today- Dec. 2001.. I now own eight llamas including "Pandora".