The Icelandic connection - 01.06.2010, Page 43

Vol. 63 #1
ICELANDIC CONNECTION
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ter this way."
And they continued up the road in the
opposite direction from home.
And of course here comes another truck
barreling up from the other direction! Now
they were surrounded by scary things so they
stopped dead in the middle of the road and
would not move.
If I went towards them they would back
away from me.
"LLLLAMMA Llamallamallama", shaka
shake shake! "Come here, come to mamma ..
. plleease.
Come this way, into the ditch, off the
road, pretty please".
Into the ditch??—but there is water in it!
(Llamas aren’t fond of wading)
You've gotta give the truckers credit -
they were quite patient! As they sat in their
warm, dry trucks, in the pouring rain, even the
guy who was in a hurry.
If I looked bad when I answered the door,
I was a real treat now with rivulets of water
streaming off my head and down my back,
clad in an old soaking wet jacket and mud up
to my ...
Finally, the llamas followed me into the
ditch. The truckers waved me a cheery smile
and off they went. So, now I said (talking to
myself again! still?) "The road is probably not
such a good idea after all", (easy walking not
withstanding). There was nothing for it but
cross-country!
If you’ve ever trudged through
Saskatchewan gumbo in the rain, you will
remember the forty pound clods of clay that
accumulate on your shoes. Shoes? shoes , you
say. Why weren’t you wearing boots?
Boots?? How was I supposed to know
that I would be three hours trying to lure three
well fed baby llamas out of a field of succu-
lent tender shoots with some clearly uninter-
esting (and now sodden) grain.
So, now with the llamas safely back in
the barn, here I sit in my kitchen, reading the
paper with my rain drenched hair, wrapped in
a towel, back in my scungy housecoat (I got
soaked to the skin) and if anybody rings my
doorbell - I’LL SIC THE DOGS ON THEM!!!
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