Spinning in Paradise at Crescent Moon Alpaca Ranch

Every year The Crescent Moon Alpaca Ranch near Terrebonne, Or 

has a wonderful day of celebrating their alpaca with shearing, Bar-B-Q 

and music. Also, lucky for me, spinning! They invited spinners from the

area to participate and for a present, gave us the alpaca fleece of our choice!!!

My choice after hard deliberation of all the gorgeous colors!!

 Any of you can purchase fleece at the above website. It was $50 for a fleece
of 16 different choice colors!!! They also usually have yarn but I didn't see
any available now. Check later!. In the boutique there are also coats, scarves
and sweaters. Gorgeous, soft and a little shiny.

Little shorn baby, cria the softest fleece

This is the only spotted alpaca I saw

Newly shorn

Saying "HI"

Careful shearing

The animals are restrained and remain perfectly still. 

It seems he was sleeping! Notice the old fashioned shears the man on

the left uses. I just saw the same ones in a really old book. The

other man has electric clippers for the body.

The ranch has about 400 alpacas and can shear about 10 a day. Lots of

work. They keep the grounds spotless and the animals so well cared for.

Spinners happily spinning, from my new guild here in Redmond

My friend Helen with her drop spindle. Very relaxed and enjoying the day

Their swimming pool

 You can see the 3 Sisters mountains in the back, Faith, Hope and Charity.

Great place for me to spin by the pool

Helen's very well behaved dog Ginger, getting love from a cute baby!!

It couldn't have been a more perfect day. I actually got a lot of wool spun 

(didn't have any alpaca yet)  The weather was super wonderful. It is that 

way a whole lot in Central Oregon. It is super fun to spin outside.