So, right now I have very little time to come into town to do anything because I am doing alpaca stuff in the morning and in the afternoons. Ron and Marilyn are on vacation, so I have to be home more often to do the alpaca stuffs. Anyways, my husband and I are going to moving at the end of this month back to my sister in law and brother in law's house. Tim is really looking forward to it, because that means he doesn't have to clean up poop from 20 alpacas every day, now it will be only 5 alpacas, and we have agreed that he can do it every other day or even every 3rd day depending on how much there is.
After we move I am going to start saving up a little bit of money each month so that for my birthday I can buy myself a really nice drum carder. They cost between $600-$1500 for a good drum carder. The one that I want is nearly $700 and I think that if I can save up $100 per month then I will be able to buy one for myself at birthday time. It's so hard to work with the fleece without having a drum carder, or even good hand carders. I have 2 large dog brushes that I am using for hand carders, and they really don't work that well. I have an old hand made drum carder that isn't great, but right now I can't even use that because the belt broke and I can't find another that will fit.
I'm really itching to use my spinning wheel more, but I can't use it until I get the fleece carded, and to get it carded nicely I need a drum carder... Ugh. Well, August isn't too far away, I guess that I can wait for it.
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