I’ve just come in from weeding the pasture. My husband is reframing the door to the barn after extensive rewiring work. The mice ate through one of the wires that brought power from the house to the barn so now we’re down to one plastic coated strand for all the barn needs. On the east side of our property, our very generous neighbor is scraping away scrub oak with his bobcat. Next year I plan to seed a new pasture there along with a new shelter for visiting dams and additional paddocks.
As I rush into the house to prepare lunch, I see my dams contentedly chewing their cud, watching the goings on of man and machine. They have no idea how much time and effort is expended on their behalf, or how many priorities have been reshuffled to improve their habitat. And it’s day in and day out, week after week. I’ve come to terms that there are certain things involved with alpacas and life here that never actually end.
Whether you agree or not, find it humorous or tragic, here are things that you too , may come to know as the Laws of Ad Infinitum:
Law Number One: No matter the size of your property, you will never have enough fencing.
Law Number Two: Regardless of how many weeds you kill each year, this number will always be exceeded by the number that spring up the following.
Law Number Three: Your barn will never be absolutely finished.
Law Number Four: There will always be more mice.
Law Number Five: Replace “mice” with flies, mosquitoes, or moths in Law Number Four.
Law Number Six: The search for good hay will never end.
Law Number Seven: Laws Number One through Six will never change.
