Wednesday, January 14, 2009

White Mountain Llamas - More History!

Our mom found some photos from 1998 the other day. The llamas seen below, Fabyan and Silace Bumpas were the first two llamas that Hana and I had in our yard. It was an experiment for us to see if we liked having llamas. It turned out to be quite successful - we went to our first Fryeburg Fair the following autumn to show Fabyan, Lizzy Bourne, Lucy Crawford, and Wannalancet.
We kept our first two leased-llamas in the middle of town on our small portion of property. Since we only kept them there during cold seasons they did not need a lot of space (for grazing). Hana and I would take them out for walks, pick up their feet, and trained them how to respond to us.
We would even have neighborhood children come over with their families to visit with the llamas. We took the llamas to visit the librarians regularly because they were right up the street from our house. They purchased Storey's Guide to Raising Llamas for the library and honored Fabyan and Silace inside the front cover.
Here I am, age 11, showing a the llamas to Kyle.Here are Hana and I, age 5 and 12 at our first every Fryeburg Fair!Here I am helping Hana to get ready for her first class in the show - the costume class! Hana and Lizzy are dressed as scarlet macaws.