Good Morning!

Good morning to all! I have been busy this past week with Easter, training and taking an afternoon trip to see our new investment...a small herd of alpacas. We will be bringing them home by mid-June, as 4H will be finished for the year. It gives us just over a month to build a pen for the males, as the females will be getting the barn and corral. My daughter and I are very excited...pictures will most definitely be posted when our herd comes home!

That aside, I purchased a new gardening book yesterday. I know I most likely don't need another, but I couldn't resist. It is The Canadian Illustrated Guide to Green Gardening by Reader's Digest. There is a hardcover issue available, but the one I bought is a binder format; pages lay flat to make it easier to stay on the page you need. I bought my copy at Coles Bookstore. It has over three thousand color illustrations and photos, and is divided into sections so it is easy to find what you are looking for. It is over five hundred pages packed full of information, from soil to plants to trees and shrubs. A recommended purchase for anyone who is a gardener as well as anyone just learning about gardening. In all honesty it would most likely benefit the new gardener more than those of us who are veterans, but anyone will find it helpful.

For those who enjoy gardening and wish to profit from it, I do have some suggestions in my book Success...It Can Be Yours! which is available on Lulu. There is also a button at the upper left on this page which will take you straight to it. Along with my writing and alpacas, my goal is to open a U-Pick for a few weeks each summer. I may not get it all in place for this gardening season, but my personal goal is within the next two years. It will all tie in together if all goes as planned.

I also still have several bundles of fat quarters available (see Buy Now button to the right). I am hoping I can liquidate as many of these as possible within the next couple of weeks, as they would be much better in the hands of someone who can use them. It will take me twenty years to make use of them; that's how many there are. I will toss in an extra fat quarter for anyone who orders from this Blog post...please make note of it on the order form. If you order two bundles, you will receive two extra fat quarters. Thank you!

Along with the arrival of our alpacas, I will be learning to process their fiber. As time goes on, I will also have alpaca fiber items for sale. I am contemplating buying a spinning wheel so I can make my own yarn; if it works for me I will have the yarn and products made from it available. I will be posting pictures as time goes on and I learn more about the fiber and the animals.

Wishing you all a good weekend, and may the weather co-operate so we can all get some yard and garden cleanup done!