Time of plenty

Highlight is up to his belly in the early summer grass. He's not allowed out in it for long — llamas are adapted to put on great quantities of fat very quickly. That's really a good thing when the summer is short (think "Patagonia") and chow is sparse (think "South American steppe habitats") ... totally unnecessary and quite unhealthy just about anywhere in North America!

As always, the lotsa-chow-for-llamas time (and that time of year when I revel in the perfect weather) coincides with time to get hay, time to comb out llamas (who are finally shedding out), time to shear Luka (who, being a woolly breed llama, does not shed), time to pull up second-year tansy plants (a toxic plant), and time to attempt (emphasis on attempt!) to catch up with all the things that can't be done in the rain, cold, and/or dark. Add a few unexpected demands (life does that) and the stupidity of agreeing to play a four-hour music gig with less than two weeks notice and you may understand why I'm thinking I'd be very happy to trade places with Highlight !!!