David, I find almost anything connected with llamas funny ever since one spat at my mother in Whipsnade zoo and the only time I ever saw her phased by anything. A local farmer is out to try anything, he did goats (milk yoghurt etc) and has moved on to llama's. What makes this funny is that he did not change the signage and people have a double take when they see a sign advertising goat milk and a bunch of llama's standing around, you say they may look like camels or perhaps giant goats? I had horses run through at one time and an exciting episode with miniature bulldogs swimming in wet concrete so yes sh*t happens. As for your little quiz I dunno, a Mexican doctors house?

Berkley perhaps?

Somewhere where a lot of kids are home-schooled!

KarinL

Sounds like a fun day. Llamas are amusing, but I prefer Vicuna. They are prettier. And softer! Local guy has a herd of Vicuna in a couple of his pastures.

Seven year-old boys are a hoot...he sounds almost like one of my nephews in Palo Alto. But I don't think there's room for a llama herd in Palo!

No llamas, but recently had a couple of guinea pigs (a dwarf breed) escape from a neighbor's farm and show up in our yard. They were probably about 2' tall, weighed about 80 pounds each, and were strong slippery little devils who were too smart to be enticed by bits of apple into cat carriers for transport back home. Ended up taking about 10 people and 3 hours to round them up. At one point, the last pig to be captured grabbed a knife (by the handle) that I had left on a stump, probably because it smelled like apple, and ran around with it in his mouth. Someone yelled out "Watch out, the pig's got a knife!" You can't make this stuff up.

I can imagine the llamas in Petaluma, but the little boy sounds like he's from Palo Alto. Glad to hear you are working on such a lovely and unusual garden.

LOL spazzycat! 80lb. guinea pigs - and that's a dwarf?! (Maybe pot-bellied pigs..?)

Yes, clearly swine rather than rodents.

Mind you, the image of a knife-wielding 80lb. guinea pig did add a lot to the Alice-in-Wonderland aspect of the tale! :-)

Love the story! As for the 7 year old, I have to wonder if he's been talking to my own 8 year old! For a couple of years, he's been talking about the droidworks he wants in our backyard when he turns 10, so he can build and sell droids. Last year, he decided he also wants to get some fossilized dinosaur dna so he can revive a microceratops. (Because it is a herbivore and small, lol)

Somewhere other than the US of A.
I base that on the interest and respect given your work.

Besides you've been hinting about South American travel? I think you mentioned other places, as well? Perhaps you made it back to the Middle East ... but do they do Llamas?

As for 7 year olds, they wow me often. Creativity and possibility are so precious, and so often nipped in the proverbial bud.

Good to hear the wonder and joy in your own words.

Rescue llamas could only be in California. : ) The plants sound very Santa Barbara. Do you ever work that far south?

You didn't mention all the trees leaning at 45 degree angles, so it can't be Vacaville where I would otherwise expect the arid plants.

So I'm guessing Yolo County.

O.K David, we have sympathized with your Llama event and empathized with your 7 year old encounter we have guessed at your gardens location so it is time to open the envelope.

I've seen a couple of horses on the loose, a cow & couple of weeks ago choppers went around & round for a couple of hours! Found out on nightly news that we had a huge cock fighting business just a few blocks away with 2000 chickens & some had sharp barbs of metal on their legs to harm their opponents. The opponents that day were animal services & police & some of them ended up going to the hospital. All of ones they caught were killed,very aggressive, weren't good for eating or anything as they were so pumped with steroids unsafe. Several got away but while I've seen feathers I haven't seen any chickens. I would have thought the smell would have driven the neighbors crazy. We still have horse property around & 1 family has had a giraffe for years.My neighbor clued me in that I have 2 huge raccoons that jumped from my block wall unto awning & from there made it to the roof, must have smelled the oranges in back yard. I haven't seen any evidence of them but know old neighbors used to feed some.

One day, a family walked past my house, giving a walk to an unleashed otter; half a year later, an ad at the local grocery store - otter gone missing. So much for exotic animals.. but usually, I have fun watching neighbors: secretively cutting down big trees at night (bit by bit, starting from top), trying to fix an old Zhiguli, painting it white, then light yellow, then deep yellow, and then selling it; then buying another car to fix; getting stuck in the mud with a lorry, bringing a tractor to pull it out bringing a crane to pull out both the tractor and the lorry. Their windows have black glasses, so I can only fantasize what they do inside.. cook amphetamine? make soap from human fat? enrich uranium? There's no end to the fun.
Bahia, that 7-year-old wouldn't surprise me. Children pretend to be childish sometimes, doesn't have to mean they really are.

David- I'm worried about you. Where are you? Hope it's somewhere so fun that it's just kept you too occupied to post ...

I went looking for this thread ... and it's been more than a month. Not sure I've read any posts from you in the meantime.

Hope you come back soon. We need to know where that boy and those llamas live.

Charlotte