{"id":1003,"date":"2018-07-29T20:32:56","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T03:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2018-07-29T20:32:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T03:32:56","slug":"alpaca-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/?p=1003","title":{"rendered":"Alpaca Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our girls (the alpacas) seem to be adjusting to their new home (our homestead) just fine.\u00a0 They seem happy and comfortable, and it&#8217;s like they&#8217;ve always been here.<\/p>\n<p>Moose, our chocolate lab, sometimes forgets they&#8217;re here and goes charging out first thing in the morning to bark at them.\u00a0 They jump at first then rush right up to the fence to see him.\u00a0 I think they think he&#8217;s a little alpaca because he and Midori are the same color.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-992 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180727_0634398941727938890050877.jpg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-993 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180727_0635307889415925259192419.jpg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They seem to really like me, which I love!\u00a0 If I&#8217;m picking berries or watering the garden or getting water for the chickens, all of which happen near the fence, they interrupt whatever they&#8217;re doing to come to the fence to check in.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s partly because I give them grain sometimes, and I spray them down with the hose when it&#8217;s really hot&#8230; and I clean up their poop&#8230; but I think they really do like me and want to know what I&#8217;m I&#8217;m doing.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-995\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180727_0636351373439338471284430.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-994\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180726_2011518449292302534023494.jpg\" width=\"2592\" height=\"1944\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-996 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180726_1101154810145297000434364.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-997 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180726_1053494824692489381422583.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"1688\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-998 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180729_1408226952342442828717895.jpg\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They also love the kids.\u00a0 They are really curious about them.\u00a0 Shaleigh is still totally freaked out about that, but Braden likes to be in the fence and lets them get close to him to sniff or kiss or whatever.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-999 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180729_1410347059938266106879984.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I asked the kids to take pictures (since they&#8217;re not doing the actual poop pick up) &#8211; and they captured some really great, flattering moments of my time with the girls! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1000 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180729_1413565310158120298934845.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1001 alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/20180726_1110006697839090934637517.jpg\" width=\"3000\" height=\"2250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We are so happy to have them here!\u00a0 We all enjoy seeing what they&#8217;re doing and introducing them to everyone who comes here!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our girls (the alpacas) seem to be adjusting to their new home (our homestead) just fine.\u00a0 They seem happy and comfortable, and it&#8217;s like they&#8217;ve always been here. Moose, our chocolate lab, sometimes forgets they&#8217;re here and goes charging out first thing in the morning to bark at them.\u00a0 They jump at first then rush right up to the fence to see him.\u00a0 I think they think he&#8217;s a little alpaca because he and Midori are the same color. They seem to really like me, which I love!\u00a0 If I&#8217;m picking berries or watering the garden or getting water for the chickens, all of which happen near the fence, they interrupt whatever they&#8217;re doing to come to the fence to check in.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s partly because I give them grain sometimes, and I spray them down with the hose when it&#8217;s really hot&#8230; and I clean up their poop&#8230; but I think they really do like me and want to know what I&#8217;m I&#8217;m doing. They also love the kids.\u00a0 They are really curious about them.\u00a0 Shaleigh is still totally freaked out about that, but Braden likes to be in the fence and lets them get close to him to sniff or kiss or whatever. I asked the kids to take pictures (since they&#8217;re not doing the actual poop pick up) &#8211; and they captured some really great, flattering moments of my time with the girls! \ud83d\ude42 We are so happy to have them here!\u00a0 We all enjoy seeing what they&#8217;re doing and introducing them to everyone who comes here! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[55,8,11,21,49],"tags":[61,64,89,98,171,174,190,222,223,225,253],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenshomestead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}