From the start, when we first hatched this idea of buying a house with several acres of land, we intended to keep alpacas. We hit the ground running. We remodeled the kitchen and bathrooms. We repainted the interior. We got rabbits. We learned about the orchard. We got a cat, and chickens, and more chickens. We put in a huge garden, and spent many hours freezing and canning produce. We got a cider press and a food dehydrator and a spinning wheel, and we learned to use