Last Thursday (june 14)  we went down to Halifax (again) to pick up our second son as he was arriving from England.

We had decided that we would have a couple of llamas and ponies for our farm and as an attraction for people to stop and buy ice cream from our Kiosk.

I had found on the web a really nice looking farm in Pictou NS that had both registered Shetland ponies (parents actually imported from the Shetland Isles) and llamas.

We arranged to look at them on Thursday as we were going down to NS anyway.

The upshot is that we have bought two fillies 2 & 3 years old and two young llamas.

A gelded male and a female.

They are going to be delivered during the first week in July.

I am so exited.

We have almost finished the ice cream kiosk and plan to open over the long weekend.

Along with the work on the kiosk we have been fencing too.

The paddock we want to use in the daytime so that the animals are up by the kiosk is right by the road and had rotten old fencing.

It is going to take a lot of work because we need it high enough for llamas (5ft) and secure enough for Shhetlands not to escape underneath.

that means four rails to each section.

At least now our boys are here and we have some extra help.