Alpacas Rule! Sheep Drool!
Will YOU take us home?! We are alpacas. We live on a farm near the city of Christchurch with 100 other alpacas. Alpacas were brought to New Zealand from the country of Peru many years ago. One of us is brown, and the other one is white, but some of our friends are grey and some are black.
Here's a picture of our handler, Sheryl, taking us for a walk at the Royal New Zealand Show. That's where we met Ms. Christie-Blick. She thought we were very cute, and she liked the humming noise we made. She pet us while she talked with Sheryl, and she learned all about our warm wool and the number of uses for it. She was amazed at the thickness our wool. In our opinion, alpaca wool is much better than sheep wool. It is used to make sweaters, scarves, mittens, hats, and all sorts of warm clothing.
The wool is dyed different colors and then spun into yarn. Here is a picture of alpaca yarn. The yarn is used to make clothing. Below is a picture of some sweaters made of alpaca wool.
We also make good pets. Ms. Christie-Blick wanted to take us both home to be her pets. (Sheryl said she couldn't buy just one because an alpaca by itself gets too lonely.) Unfortunately, her yard in New Zealand is too small for us. Also, it would be too long a plane ride back to New York. Maybe she'll just buy a nice alpaca sweater instead. Remember, alpacas rule!
If YOU could have an alpaca as a pet which one would YOU choose??? CLICK HERE to see the alpaca pets for sale at our farm.
5 Comments:
Hi Ms. CB!
Could you please tell me your address? I want to send you a Christmas present. Ha! That is going to be weird for you. getting a Christmas present in the middle of summer!
From:Asproutagus
My address here: 8 The Spur, Sumner, Christchurch, 8081, New Zealand. No need to send me a present, but I would LOVE a homemade card. Thanks for thinking of me, Asproutagus. It WILL be weird to celebrate Christmas at the beginning of summer. I hope it will be a nice, warm day. Christmas decorations have started appearing in the shops. One house nearby has a fake Christmas tree with all its decorations in its living room. I wonder if they'll sell live trees for Christmas here. I wonder if houses will be decorated with lights and snowmen for Christmas. I guess I'll find out soon!
They do not celebrate Thanksgiving here. Can you guess why? I had to work on Thursday and Friday. However, tonight, Saturday, we are having some Kiwi friends over for a Thanksgiving dinner. I'm looking forward to it!
Ms. C-B
Dear Ms.CB,
Christmas decorations are going up like crazy over here! You should see some of these houses!
Anyway, I need your advice. I bought this really nice crystal for my mom that has mountains inside. I initialy bought her it for Christmas, but then I remembered that her birthday is also in December and its coming up soon! Should I give her the crystal on her birthday, or on Christmas?
From Asproutagus
Sprout,
Your gift for your mom sounds WONDERFUL. I'll bet you're dying to see her face when she opens her special present, so why not give it to her for whichever event comes first, birthday or Christmas?
Ms. C-B
Hi Ms.CB!
Your right! I want to give her the crystal soooooooooo badly! Since my mom's birthday comes first,I geuss I'll give it to her then.Thanks for your help!
From:Asproutagus
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