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New Llamas
July 24, 1999 16:43
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Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Typical overly eventful week here at Freedom Hall. Still quilting, canning, writing books, editing magazines, planting, weeding, watering, tending our growing flock of animals, repairing outbuildings, and sorting junk. I’ve also decided to open a booth upstairs from the boot and tack shop in Colfax. They had some extra space upstairs, so they’re renting out spaces by month. Mine is a 10 1/2 × 9 1/2 foot space, but I have one extra bonus – one of the “walls” is the overhang for the stairs, so I get to hang things over the railing to attract attention as people go downstairs. That sounds like a small thing, but if you’ve ever done merchandising you know that’s a pretty good thing. I take “ownership” of it August 1st, so I’ve been busily painting and sewing and doing all the other things needed to get a booth like that ready. I’ll be selling woodcrafts and cloth items (think “Country Gift Store”). I’m advertising in the quarterly quilting newsletter, and the local county newspaper, so we’re hoping we’ll do ok.

Hm.. what else…? Well, Danny’s ear is healing fine. It’s scabbing now, so it looks pretty disgusting, but I guess that’s part of it. Thursday we drove to Spokane so Mike could take some M$ certification exams and we could do some shopping. We also went to the llama farm and bought two llamas. :) We haven’t brought them home yet – it’s that whole fence thing all over again – but you can see fuzzy pictures of them here. Ours are Scotty and Tango. Hopefully, they’ll help keep Danny company, and will get along well with whatever additional livestock we get, and maybe I’ll even get into spinning llama wool. Who knows, at this point?

Thursday night our water pressure got really bad because our well pump died. By Friday morning it was nil. So Mike’s been hauling water to the house from the spring and boiling it for use. Today the pump fixer guy came out and installed a new pump (the cost was almost enough to buy four more llamas) and wiring. So now we have water again. If it’s not one thing, it’s another!

Well, I think I smell dinner downstairs. Drop me a line and let me know how you’re doing!
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