I’ve been really sick all week, my friends, so I apologize for my lack of enthusiasm in regards to my blog lately!

So on Wednesday of this week (yes, I was sick, but I scrounged up enough energy to get out to a farm!) we decided that we needed to increase our flock a bit. I had seen an ad on Craigslist for Jacob lambs so I figured since Cowboy and Kenzie are both 1/4 jacob, these new lambs would fit in just fine. So we went out to some property in Cheshire (about 45 minutes from us) and instantly fell in love with these adorable sheepies! There were a couple ram lambs and a couple ewe lambs to choose from. We decided to bring the ewes home because they had the softest and most colorful coats. Here they are!

It was so cute to see the other animals’ reactions to the new girls! Furio and Cortez were the first ones to notice them and came running from the field to see them. They chased and sniffed them for about a minute before Cowboy and Kenzie showed up.

Cowboy seemed very interested in them and gave them a warm welcome (meaning he gave them a couple soft kicks in the rumps and tried to mount both of them).

Kenzie on the other hand seemed very insecure and chased and head-butted them for about an hour. We had to monitor them and make sure that she wasn’t hurting them (she wasn’t, I think it was more of an initiation or rite of passage for the new girls!).

After all the introductions, the original group all went down to the river and the new girls wanted to come with but they kept their distance because Kenzie was not quite ready to accept them into the group yet. The alpacas at this point seemed pretty indifferent either way and Cowboy was loving them but again, Kenzie was the complicating factor.

Fast forward a few days later to today. They all seem to be getting along great! They graze together and sit around and chew cud together, good times! Now if we can only think up some names for them. I thought of Bella and Donna but Todd wasn’t too keen on those names. It gets hard naming animals after you have so many! So if you have any ideas, please let us know.

On the business front, I’m still looking into the new fabrics and trying to make some decisions. I have a ton of samples and am waiting on some others so once I have all of them in front of me and I can compare quality and price on them all, I will order. I’m so excited~!! I just love buying fabric, especially yummy sustainable fibers like bamboo, organic cotton and soy fabrics!!! Patience is not one of my virtues but unfortunately I am being forced to wait. Wait for samples, wait for UPS and DHL to get back to me and make my life easier in terms of accepting samples/shipments from overseas, wait for money, wait for it all to be shipped….*sigh* so it will be about a month or 2 before all this fabric stuff comes together but it’s in the works and I’ll keep you all posted!!

Much love my blog friends!