I was happy to lend a hand when 25 alpacas were sheared last week in Dunham, Quebec, at my friend Karen's farm (https://www.facebook.com/karen.garrick.71). These professional shearers, Danny and Ryan, from Smithfield, New Brunswick, near the town of Canada's oldest woolen mill, Briggs and Little, sure didn't waste any time doing this annual task. Alpacas are such graceful and mild animals. Karen takes such excellent care of her animals, knows them so well and is so bonded with them that the shearing was made much easier on everyone, including the alpacas. Many tiger swallowtails flew by that day, you can even see one on the video.