Good Night Sweet Paca

Each night before I go to bed I make a trip out to check the alpaca. The boys are hunkered in their barn and chewing their cud. They tolerate my nightly invasion into their barn but hardly acknowledge that I am there. I tell them a quick good night and am off to the girls barn. When I reach the girls barn everyone is settled as well, that is all except "Sweet Baby James". He has decided at the early age of four months that he will not spend his life sleeping or chewing cud. He has much to see and even more to do. Part of his passion is trying to get other alpacas to play with him. He runs from alpaca to alpaca pushing and prodding each one to see if they will pay attention. Tonight he finally got Sienna Rose. She couldn't stand one more poke so off she went to join the chase. Around the pasture they pronk trying to pass each other, cutting curves like a race car on a fast track. They continue their run into the barn disturbing, if only for a moment, the quiet with their race. Before you know it they have rounded the barn and are back outside to start again. But before you know it, it's over. Sienna has stopped and decided little James is a pain. She really just wants to chew her cud. James, takes notice for only a minute. There are other Alpacas to bug and who knows which one will take him on next. For now he is still the fastest alpaca in the barn