Breanna’s new Alpaca children

Somewhere around our first date, Breanna mentioned that she always wanted to have alpacas, some time after that, to impress my new girlfriend, I brazenly promised her that I would make sure she eventually had them.  She has ingeniously forgotten most of the things Ive promised during our courtship, but the alpaca promise was one she refused to let go.  So last week, after moving a newly purchased and previously disassembled greenhouse to the farm in about ten thousand different pieces, I relaxed in a chair while scrolling through Facebook.  I saw a post from someone who was dispersing of an alpaca herd a little over an hour from here. We got in touch and decided to go see them the next day.

When we got there, the woman showing us the herd mentioned that she had two special alpacas that she was thinking of bringing back to her farm, they had bonded and one of them was deaf, so they couldnt be seperated. I looked over at Breanna and she was looking at me like the kitten in the Shrek movie, eyes all watery and huge. I knew we were about to own a deaf alpaca.

We chose three alpacas, Peaches and Cream, they are white and Cream is deaf, and Stella, a reddish brown alpaca. We went home and made plans to pick them up in about 5 days. Breanna was going to come back to get them in the minivan.

By the time we got home, it became apparent that waiting five days was impossible. I called and changed the plan so that Breanna could pick them up in two days, which gave me just enough time to reconfigure a shelter for them, clear out the pen area and fence it in. Two days later, Breanna pulled in, three alpacas in the minivan, and we pulled and prodded the alpacas out of the car and into their new home.  Im letting her take care of them and I try to keep my distance because if they end up liking me before they like her, Im afraid our relationship might be done for.