Just heard within the last hour the horrible news of the passing of our friend and colleague, Jim King of Skyeview Alpacas. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sue and and the rest of the King family…
IAN & JENNIFER LUTZ |
Just a quick one on this gloriously rainy — it makes the grass grow and takes the dust out of the show animals’ fleeces, it’s all good — Sunday morning to say that the stud fee on CCNF Royal Ring of Fire has been adjusted downward for the first time ever. What that means is . . . → Read More: Royal Ring of Fire Having seen the kids off to school, I just walked into my office and opened up all of my windows. It smells great out there: the pastures are turning more green every day, and I can hear the birds singing. Taken as a snapshot there’s not a whole lot not to love about it and . . . → Read More: Freaky warm 
Christmas band at CCNF Merry Christmas everybody! To those of you of other persuasions, enjoy the proverbial Chinese food and the empty movie theaters, I hear that’s pretty great too! We’re gathered here with the extended Lutz family from Cambridge, MA (my mom and dad) and NYC (sister, brother, and two nieces) taking in . . . → Read More: Merry Christmas! What is an alpaca breeding pimp facilitator to do now that the off season has truly arrived? Read, drink beer, and whine about the weather? We will of course be doing all of that and more in the days and months to come but I also had an inkling this morning. Sorry. To paraphrase Crash Davis . . . → Read More: Tale of the 2011 breeding tape The time arrives each fall when after months of talking about the members of a given year’s birth class as “so-and-so’s cria,” we actually get down to the nitty gritty of naming these little buggers for real. For the most part that task falls to yours truly with Jen and Kim chiming in now and . . . → Read More: Hey baby, what’s your name? If you were expecting a post about big life changes from your truly, I’m sorry to disappoint you. Our client Diana Fiorey from Crescendo Acres Farm sent me the photo below yesterday of two of our former boys, now ultimate PR geldings, in their natty crafts fair best. I almost splooged coffee onto my monitor when . . . → Read More: On to bigger and better things! Since I first posted directions to the farm in the immediate post-Irene/apocalypse-redux state that we were all in around here 2 weeks ago, the local road infrastructure has improved considerably. Yes, there are still parts of nearby major highways (106 between Downer’s Four Corners and Springfield, as well as Rt. 131 west of that same . . . → Read More: Some updates on roads in the area for National Alpaca Farm Days Though we made it through Irene here on the farm with nary a flicker of the lights our state, as you have no doubt heard by now, really took it on the chin. The flooding and destruction statewide is said to be as bad or worse than the infamously destructive (I learned yesterday) storm of . . . → Read More: Trying to make sense of the devastation 
Jen gets to work… So I woke up this morning and guffawed when I realized that I could add something new to the description we have in our sales materials for our young female, Jabulani. It seems that in addition to her many other positive traits she also enjoys kicking the sh!t out of . . . → Read More: Don’t mess with Porky! |
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