For Two Months Now ...

For two months now, I've been promising you a cria.

Chloe hasn't delivered and it doesn't look like she'll deliver today.

"We want a cria now!" chants the blogsphere.

"Where's the spinning content? Is this really a knitting blog?" screams a voice in the back row.

"All he does is complain about how hard shearing is", yells another heckler.

"I don't think Chloe's even pregnant!" says a third. "It's all just a trick to get us to read the blog every day."

As my wife keeps telling me, babies choose to arrive when they arrive. Alpacas gestation is 345 days +/- 30. We've been through the minus thirty and we're now on plus twelve. We have eighteen more days on the plus side.

"We want the cria now!" chants the blogsphere.

Ok! Ok! Ok. So it's not Chloe's baby, but here is a cria picture.


Sindre in May 2003. Note the red-orange stain on his toenails. That's from the iodine we used to treat his umbilical cord.

And, to go with the cria picture, here are the 2006 before and after shearing pictures of Sindre.


Sindre on May 14, 2006


Sindre on May 16, 2006