Cria Watch Day 34: Hot. Tired. No baby.

One of the great things about random retail schedules is that one can ask for a weekday off and generally not need to take vacation time. One of the downsides is that if you take a day off to do physical work, you don't have the weekend to recover.

I took Friday off to help friends shear.

I worked both days this weekend trying to keep up with the Mother's day crowd in the garden center -- the crowd won.

We're shearing here tomorrow.

I'm tired.

And I work the day job again on Tuesday.

At least we're getting these winter coats off the animals. They're very hot -- you would be too if you were walking around in a five or ten pound alpaca coat in eighty-five degree weather.

Last year we worried about cold after shearing. This year we're worrying about heat before shearing. I guess that means our timing is about right for our climate.

More on shearing if I survive tomorrow. There might even be before and after pictures if I get REALLY ambitious.

In the meantime, here's Anna and her water bucket . . .


And here she is looking very hot and pitiful . . .