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- Mar 9, 2002
Just thought I'd explain where the alpaca and llama thing came from, because I think several people were puzzled and thinking they were missing some big inside joke... it was really nothing.
I live in Texas, and have a sweet and interesting husband who tends to entertain me in some off-the-wall ways. It's not always easy to tell when he's serious vs. when he's messing with me.
There's a house not far from us where the people raise alpacas. They have maybe 25 or so of them, and they're ADORABLE. Soft and fluffy, big soulful eyes, they're just sweet and so cute. I like to drive by and "visit" them from the car when we're headed that way. DH likes to tease me about it.
Now DH has become interested (I think) in the alpacas- googling information about them, what it takes to raise them, how people make money with alpaca herds. He teases me with alpaca-related anecdotes. Sends me pictures of them. Does he want to become an alpaca farmer? Does he just like to mess with me? Is it just the "off the wall interest of the month" to amuse himself? Who knows.
Then scary books started showing up in the mail. An IRS guide to farming rules. Alpaca breeder directories. Books about processing and selling alpaca fiber and raising alpacas. Seriously.
I shared some of this on Facebook, and a couple of my lovely DIS friends started having fun with me, teasing about the alpaca thing.
Then, as things do with this silly and wonderful group, it spun off into a delirious and silly string of comments about alpacas in a thread that needed some lightening up.
The alpaca is closely related to the llama. And the "Drama Llama" is an internet staple, those folks who ALWAYS have some serious issues in their lives they feel compelled to post about. So we got into lots of alpaca and llama talk that was really about nothing, but did help take a thread that could have been too serious and contentious and derail it into fun and silly talk. Some of the folks probably knew about the Facebook origins, many more didn't and just joined in the fun.
Cake is the other topic that gets introduced to lighten up threads, just in case the cake comments cause the same confusion.
So that's the whole story. Not as intriguing as you were hoping, was it?
And for your enjoyment, here's a video of a darling alpaca cria (baby) named Genie, so you can see for yourself why I find them so adorable:
Genie the baby Alpaca
I live in Texas, and have a sweet and interesting husband who tends to entertain me in some off-the-wall ways. It's not always easy to tell when he's serious vs. when he's messing with me.
There's a house not far from us where the people raise alpacas. They have maybe 25 or so of them, and they're ADORABLE. Soft and fluffy, big soulful eyes, they're just sweet and so cute. I like to drive by and "visit" them from the car when we're headed that way. DH likes to tease me about it.
Now DH has become interested (I think) in the alpacas- googling information about them, what it takes to raise them, how people make money with alpaca herds. He teases me with alpaca-related anecdotes. Sends me pictures of them. Does he want to become an alpaca farmer? Does he just like to mess with me? Is it just the "off the wall interest of the month" to amuse himself? Who knows.
Then scary books started showing up in the mail. An IRS guide to farming rules. Alpaca breeder directories. Books about processing and selling alpaca fiber and raising alpacas. Seriously.
I shared some of this on Facebook, and a couple of my lovely DIS friends started having fun with me, teasing about the alpaca thing.
Then, as things do with this silly and wonderful group, it spun off into a delirious and silly string of comments about alpacas in a thread that needed some lightening up.
The alpaca is closely related to the llama. And the "Drama Llama" is an internet staple, those folks who ALWAYS have some serious issues in their lives they feel compelled to post about. So we got into lots of alpaca and llama talk that was really about nothing, but did help take a thread that could have been too serious and contentious and derail it into fun and silly talk. Some of the folks probably knew about the Facebook origins, many more didn't and just joined in the fun.
Cake is the other topic that gets introduced to lighten up threads, just in case the cake comments cause the same confusion.
So that's the whole story. Not as intriguing as you were hoping, was it?
And for your enjoyment, here's a video of a darling alpaca cria (baby) named Genie, so you can see for yourself why I find them so adorable:
Genie the baby Alpaca
Now I want one. We have llamas all over East Tennessee (in farms and for use as pack animals in the Smokies) but I'm not sure about alpaca's.
We have no HOA.
That's the biggest hunk of Alpaca poop I've ever heard!
