Tuesday, May 18, 2010

And the award for best commerical in the llama/alpaca category goes to...

STANLEY STEEMER! Their efforts to educate the public in the differences between alapcas and llamas while selling their carpet cleaning products and services should certainly not go unmentioned here at everyday llamallove. Congratulations!



More of these to come!

Monday, May 17, 2010

All shapes and sizes

Sometimes on a rainy spring day you just need a little visual pick me up from llamas dressed in various pop culture references. Thanks to a fellow llama llover for the tip!

(sorry, can't find the photo credit for it)

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Tootsie: Something of a 'llama about town'

Well the local news is at it again, this time trying to convince readers that a llama just happened to wander into a bible reading marathon. Granted, a llama visit may seem like a gift from god, and a visit during a bible reading may indeed portend the second coming, but this article has more sass than substance and begins to tread in "sounds fishy" territory.

"Kemper Meadows stood on the steps of the Bleckley County Courthouse and read aloud from the Old Testament in her King James Bible.

She was somewhere in the first chapter of the Book of Joshua late Saturday afternoon.
And that’s when a llama named Tootsie showed up."

The article continues with so many choice quotes that somewhere in Alabama even Tootsie is humming along in approbation.

"Kemper should not have been too surprised to get a visit from Tootsie, who is somewhat of a 'llama about town' and a regular participant in parades and other festivities.

Tootsie doesn’t profess to be either Baptist or Methodist. She is strictly a nondenominational animal.

She could, however, be the Dalai Llama."

It's nice to see that the "llama about town" wasn't too busy to show up for the bible marathon, which lasts a whole 5,000 minutes every May in Cochran. Right on the courthouse steps! That's legal apparently!

"There are probably those who wonder how it is allowed to happen. After all, some courthouses don’t allow display of the 10 Commandments.

Yet, in downtown Cochran, folks fly the Christian flag and read scripture from the courthouse porch for more than 5,000 minutes every May.

Last year, a Cochran man who works at Robins Air Force Base told one of his co-workers about his plans to read the Bible on the courthouse steps.

'You can’t do that. It’s against the law,' the co-worker said.
Said the man: 'Not in Cochran, it isn’t.'"

Well there you have it. Folks are straight up flying that Christian flag high above Cochran and all the blessed llamas wandering around it.

My favorite part of the article shows the spirit and creativity in small-town America, where things are legal just because you say they are.  "The Dairy Queen at the edge of town has a sign announcing that the marathon runs through May 51. (An employee used the numbers 5 and 1 to make 6, so you have to do the imaginative addition yourself.)"

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Llamas save the day, yet again

When they're not busy therapizing our at-risk youth and seniors, or saving the day in the community nativity scene (taking the place of the harder to come by camel) at Christmas time, llamas and alpacas are busy straight growing their hair out in the case of a major oil spill.

Yes, this year BP has one more tool in it's (rather pathetic looking) toolbox to clean up the spill in the gulf. Apparently llama fur is super absorbent and can be used in the booms that are placed in the water to contain the slick. The outlook is grim due to the seemingly unstoppable underwater oil volcano, but at least we can all smile at the llamas' ridiculous new look post-shearing.
        Preview of post-haircut alpacas

Video link is here, sorry no embed options. It's worth a click. :-)

And as one commenter summed up the situation nicely:

"Tina, come soak up some oil... Soak the OIL!"