“What’ll I do with my pet when I sell the house and it’s time to move? Alpaca!”
Get it? Al-pack-a? I’ll-pack-her? Oh, my sides, my sides…
Found By: Tricia
Loveliest comment, by gvh: What I love about Llamas and their brethren is that intense far away look they have, peering into the distance without focus. As if there’s something very serious and melancholy on their mind. ‘My dear, sweet Nicolai. Though we may never meet again, my heart will hold eternally safe what the secret police could not kill.’
Or something.
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Forget the llama, did you read this?
“This view of the media room reveals the gorgeous travertine fireplace and the powder bath.”
Soooo, if there is nothing on TV, you’ll always have something or someone to watch. How conveneint!
That picture unduly amused me. The fireplace looks so tiny next to the projection screen. Giant, looming screen, teeny wee fireplace.
It’s already an amusing visual. The land proportion eschews, I guess.
So…Larry the Llama is considered a selling feature? Only when he’s downwind, I’ll bet.
That definitely calls for this:
NOOOOOOOO–oh wait, it’s better than an endless parade of Christmas carols!
I’m pretty sure that’s a llama, however I will forgive your transgressions because there’s nothing better than a travertine fireplace, which makes this listing all the more worthwhile.
PS. What is a travertine fireplace?!
Travertine is a type of stone, a limestone if I remember correctly. It’s tannish, often has visible fossil shell relics in it and is prized for its appearance.
It is used (in large tiles) for floors, used to face fireplaces and sometimes used for shower wall applications. Gorgeous!
Travertine is sometimes called the poor-man’s marble. Its more porous than marble so not as good for counters, though when polished its not porous which is fine for shower walls and fireplaces (kitchen counters obviously get more ware) Though I think there are a few sources of travertine that are almost non-porous and are all the rage. I could be wrong.
Does the alpaca come with the house? Is he the transportation from the gate to the front door?
Except for the alpaca, I really like this property. Can’t afford it, but like it.
With the paved pathway and alpaca’s, you’ll never sprain a muscle getting the shopping from the car to the kitchen.
Ye gods, this place is less than 50 miles from where I live. I could go check it out in person. (Don’t hold your breath.) Aren’t alpacas mountain animals? How do they stand the Texas summer in all that wool?
They get sheared regularly–and believe it or not, that wool actually acts as a sort of heat barrier. There are several farms that we pass by on the way to San Marcos, and nothing is funnier than a herd (pack? Bunch? Pride? Flock?) of freshly-sheared alpacas with their head-fur still on.
Soooo….. where’s the duck?
Here’s a llama!
There’s a llama!
And another little llama!
Funny llama,
Fuzzy llama,
Llama, llama,
Duck!
Hey people… it’s not a friggin alpaca, it’s a llama. Know what you’re talking about when you describe something. The listing even states, “…patio & deck overlooking Larry the llama & friends…”
Don’t be a hater Andrew or I’ll set the crew from YSaC on ya.
Now THEY know their llamas and emus and alpacas!
*I believe I sounded a bit like Sarah Palin on that first sentence. You betcha’*
and llamas obviously don’t know how to alpaca their own stuff. Duh!
Ok, so this made me look it up on wikipedia….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca
Based on the pictures and descriptions, I’d say that’s definitely a llama. But alpacas and llamas can crossbreed, so that would be a good argument to me that they are just sub-divisions of the same species, like different breeds of dogs.
Cross-breeding of them is rare. And they’re both camelids, members of the family camelidae, but they are distinct and separate species. They were domesticated from two different species, llamas from the guanaco, alpacas from the vicuña, both of which still exist in small numbers of undomesticated animals.
Cross breeding is actually more common than you might think. Many breeders think the latest trend in llamas, suri fiber, is a result of crossing them to alpacas. They have no problem cross-breeding given the opportunity, as a friend found out when she took a bit too relaxed of an attitude to getting her young alpaca gelded, and he happily served all her llama girls!
That’s probably more than you wanted to know…
Is she interested in getting rid of any of the resulting offspring?
*knitpurlknitpurlknitknitknit*
Wikipedia says llama-alpaca crosses are docile and make good pets. Maybe if I had a yard bigger than a postage stamp…
Maybe we could persuade some of the llama/alpaca folks to breed a mini sized alpaca. Then, we could have a surge in pet mini-pacas to compete with the micro-pigs!
OK someone must have put something in the water, because I’m in a totally odd mood today!
There are people breeding for size – mini llamas! I don’t know about alpacas, but the mini llamas are adorable!
MINI LLAMAS?! Oh MAN, if only my neighborhood association didn’t have restrictions against livestock…
*doublecrochetdoublecrochetchainstitch*
It’s a llama. And they don’t have wool. They have hair.
Hair, wool, it all becomes yarn an’ that’s what’s important!
Does Virginia like her New Jersey? Idaho, Alaska!
Ooo, there’s even more llama… looks like they have knitted covers for the sun loungers from llama wool, and the “master retreat features new sculpted carpet in a rich natural tone” looks suspiciously familiar too. Anyone spot any more?
It’s kind of a nice house, but it really should be for the price. Presence of lurking llamas notwithstanding.
Anyone want to help me understand what the heck the “beach access” is that is repeatedly mentioned for that pool? It’s mentioned several times, and it looks like there might be an amusing sand box near the edge of the pool (listed under ways to kill your filter dead, I’ll bet).
Or is this a term I’m simply misunderstanding? I see steps, and then in one shot, it looks like there is a blob of sand…which the neighborhood cats must LOVE.
I think it’s that beige coloured thing that gets into the pool … I figure you just “walk in” instead of using a ladder.
That being said, the place is nice. I wonder if the apalaca or lama or whatever is included in the price.
I wondered if the llama actually belongs to a neighbor. Be greeted by Larry the Llama (because there’s no way to get ride of him, dang zoning laws!!).
Thanks, kookiemaster. Most pools have a shallow end, and you walk in via the stairs…which this pool actually has. I think you’re right, I think they also built a slope up to the blog of beige, seemingly two feet from the stairs that are already there. That seems…redundant, for starters…but also, it’s not as if it’s a big pool. They just seemed to cram in as many features as they could on a relatively small pool. Slide, graded access (which they keep referring to as beach access…and I’m really hoping that’s some sort of faux sand, because the real stuff would be a nightmare). Stair access. Some kind of water feature, too. It’s also evidently a salt water pool, which they keep referring to as no-chemical (which isn’t exactly accurate, salt water pools produce their own chlorine).
Why yes, I’m fascinated by pools. What gave it away?
What I love about Llamas and their brethren is that intense far away look they have, peering into the distance without focus. As if there’s something very serious and melancholy on their mind.
‘My dear, sweet Nicolai. Though we may never meet again, my heart will hold eternally safe what the secret police could not kill.’
Or something.
That is seriously soda-through-the-nose funny!
That’s a pretty mangy llama, looks like it has a bot fly infestation (don’t look that up if you have a weak stomach).
The llama pictured needs sheared, especially in Texas. He’s not mangy or bot infested but he probably has been rolling in leaves and dirt. Has poor Larry been standing in that pool described to keep cool? Quite possibly. The fiber has rotted off his legs and he looks like an emu. Llamas are also excellent guardians so if he comes with the house, hopefully he’ll like the new home owners…
Mini alpacas do exist…check out yahoo groups minialpacaregistry.
I can’t tell if that’s an alpaca or a llama, but it’s got a god awful haircut, whatever it is.
Screw the house. I want the llamas!!! Wonderful pets AND lots and lots of fiber. *lovingly twirls drop spindle*