Primrose Baby continued

Who's cuter?

Autumn colors at Hideaway Too - I think this looks like a postcard, grass just needs to be a bit greener with some rain. All the leaves changing color is not a typical Ozzie scene..thanks to the previous owners who planted such pretty trees.

Happy Mother's Day Primrose!

Hideaway Too welcomed the first baby to be born on the property today! After lots of watching and waiting Primrose (our big brown girl) finally gave birth to a gorgeous little fella this morning. I'd kind of given up on waiting but Hugh went to have a look out the window this morning and started carrying on "oh...cute, a little brown baby...cute..." I thought he was just winding me up so I kept eating breakfast and resisted the temptation to have a peek myself. All those years of dad trying the "look - girls it's snowing!" trick in Hawaii have made me more street smart than to fall for something that lame. But then H dashed out the door and I realized it was actually true! Very cute and healthy...the pics speak for themselves. No name decided yet, but given the Mother's Day arrival I was thinking that "Hideaway's Momma's Boy" sounds appropriate!

Pls. send rain - look how dry it is...

The proud "father" / farmer



About 1 hour old



First breakfast
Trying to get a handle on those legs...


This is all just a bit too exhausting...

Pony Rides

These pics are from April. Laurella made her pony ride debut. The Zwi's came over and Steph took a spin on Laurella. A great time was had by all - Steph did an awesome job riding and Laurella did a great job being ridden - hurray!

Steph was a real natural and looked so at home in the saddle, she's even got my old chaps on!! (I've finally had to ditch riding in them...even all the extra duct tape and leather elbow patches isn't enough to hold them together any longer for me to use them) I've replaced them with half-chaps, much more practical in the Ozzie heat.

Castle Hill Show - Alpacas

This was the big day for our crop of young alpacas. Sopresa and Barossa (our babies from last year) had their show debut. Hugh was a master at halter training them....I was absolutely useless, the alpacas finally let me in a little secret they they are not little horses and the same rules don't apply! Hugh was all decked out in his snazzy white lab coat and was a real showman in the ring. He walked - out with a 2nd place for Sopresa (boy) this is a great achievement!! and Barossa our little girl didn't get anything, unfortunately "cute" doesn't get ribbons in the alpaca world. I was the official photographer for Team Hideaway Too and failed miserably...I thought I had lots of great shots but this is the only one that turned out. Showing alpacas is a lot easier than horses, no cleaning tack, no baths, no grooming, no braiding, no lunging them down...just a bucket of water and a "biscuit" of hay and your all set. Also, trailer loading is much easier too, if they don't want to get in you can simply pick them up, but these guys loaded like champs.

Hugh is in the distant background in the above photo. He is looking down at the ground next to the woman with the blonde ponytail. He's in the ring with Barosa.

Donnie & Laurella showed in the horse division. Donnie was Reserve Champion Part-Bred Connemara and Laurella got a 2nd for Connemara Pure Bred Mares. The horse that beat her is this amazing text book classic Connemara - a real beauty. Donnie and Laurella were a real pain in the @#$%! at this show though...I haven't taken them out together before and the "seperation anxiety" when I took one away from the other was really a bit much!