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30 April 2010 21:291. No crias yet. Yay! Dar comes home tomorrow night, and then they can start popping out the baby alpacas.
2. Our baby Hailey - a week old today - is growing like a lovely little weed. She's steadily gaining weight, and she's a terror on four legs out in the pasture. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to catch her to weigh her, which suits her just fine.
3. Remember little Saffron? Dee says that she turned a corner the next day, and her body is able to adjust her blood sugar without her crashing every few minutes. Saffron is still living in the house, and apparently Dee is wondering how much house she's going to have left by the time the little girl goes back to the barn. She's running and jumping and into everything :) She's still completely a bottle baby, and that's a tough chore for the humans there, because she has to be fed every few hours. In three weeks she should be able to start eating grain and grass, and they can start cutting back on the bottle feedings. Ideally, her mom would take her back, but apparently that's only the case 30% of the time. Stranger things have happened, though, so everyone is hoping for the best.
4. We're back into summer weather here. It was 80F/25C today, which is much, much better than the cold and snow going on in other parts of North America. I have no complaints. (I know!)
5. I'm watching Rachel Maddow as I'm typing this, and have I mentioned how much I love having an out butch dyke on my TV with a very respected and successful news commentary show? Because I love it a lot. She is adorkable. She's doing a segment on the street in DC, and she's without makeup and wearing a rugby shirt and a hoodie; her hair is not coiffed. And again - adorkable! (For her, I'll even give the hoodie a pass. Sort of.)
6. The situation in AZ just keeps getting more fascist. Now they've banned ethnic studies. And they're firing teachers who speak with a strong accent. Bishop Desmond Tutu speaks to it with his usual grace, eloquence, and truth.
2. Our baby Hailey - a week old today - is growing like a lovely little weed. She's steadily gaining weight, and she's a terror on four legs out in the pasture. I'm not sure how much longer I'll be able to catch her to weigh her, which suits her just fine.
3. Remember little Saffron? Dee says that she turned a corner the next day, and her body is able to adjust her blood sugar without her crashing every few minutes. Saffron is still living in the house, and apparently Dee is wondering how much house she's going to have left by the time the little girl goes back to the barn. She's running and jumping and into everything :) She's still completely a bottle baby, and that's a tough chore for the humans there, because she has to be fed every few hours. In three weeks she should be able to start eating grain and grass, and they can start cutting back on the bottle feedings. Ideally, her mom would take her back, but apparently that's only the case 30% of the time. Stranger things have happened, though, so everyone is hoping for the best.
4. We're back into summer weather here. It was 80F/25C today, which is much, much better than the cold and snow going on in other parts of North America. I have no complaints. (I know!)
5. I'm watching Rachel Maddow as I'm typing this, and have I mentioned how much I love having an out butch dyke on my TV with a very respected and successful news commentary show? Because I love it a lot. She is adorkable. She's doing a segment on the street in DC, and she's without makeup and wearing a rugby shirt and a hoodie; her hair is not coiffed. And again - adorkable! (For her, I'll even give the hoodie a pass. Sort of.)
6. The situation in AZ just keeps getting more fascist. Now they've banned ethnic studies. And they're firing teachers who speak with a strong accent. Bishop Desmond Tutu speaks to it with his usual grace, eloquence, and truth.
