Alpaca Farm in my future! sort of...

Some of you will not understand, others will be amazed and jealous.

So I'm at a wake last night and I'm talking with friends I see maybe twice a year, but they are good friends.  One says he's going to be moving back out the rural northwestern part of Illinois (Dixon area for you locals) to build a house on his family's property out there.  The have about 100 acres.  They want to raise livestock.  I said, what kind of livestock?  They said alpacas.  I could tell when they said it they have said this before and always have to follow it up with an explanation of what an alpaca is.  So I smoothly said, "Alpacas?  I'm a big fan of alpacas, I love how they run."  They were floored that someone knew what it was. 

So, Oipolloi, when you retire that avatar I will have a place he can roam free the rest of his days.

By the way, I also asked them if they were raising them for meat because I told them alpaca burritos are going to be the next big thing.  Then I asked them if they can be milked.  This pretty much destroyed any credibility I had in the area of alpaca knowledge.  They did promise I could come visit them once they have some on the farm.  (I have a feeling they will be watching me closely.)