Many friendly faces will be here to greet you.

Our daughter says we have over 40 animals living at our orchard.

When Vic came to live on our orchard, one of our neighbors told us that llama's are good watch dogs. That seems to be the case. Vic adopted our five goats and two sheep immediately. Whenever they get out of his sight he starts "singing" to them to come back. When strange dogs come near his pen he will stand between the intruder and his flock.

Last summer we made the mistake of putting Eore the miniature donkey in the goats pen. Eore thought it was fun to chase the goats, until Vic started "spitting" at him. Llama's have a good aim, and if you make them mad you might get some bad smelling, green colored, spit on your head, just like Eore did.

One of Vic's goats

This is "Killer" the pygmy goat. He earned his name because of the way he struts around the goat pen. Killer was a grand champion at the Chelan County Fair. His picture was picked up by our local newspaper under the caption "which is smarter goats or pigs?" Seems a reporter over heard our son and one of his friends discussing the quality of goat intelligence versus pig intelligence.

New baby "chicks" came to visit our orchard this spring

Some with fancy feathers on their heads.

And, some with few feathers at all.