Welcome to the CCNF spring show season redux. Though we technically just competed in three different shows over April Fool’s weekend (a joke that writes itself on multiple levels), it honestly felt like a lot less work. It was certainly less stressful than what we are usually accustomed to this time of year. Look, a…
About 10 days before we traveled to Nashville and the Natural Fiber Extravaganza for the 2nd consecutive year, we were privileged to attend a premier of episode 3 of filmmaker Ken Burns’s upcoming documentary, Country Music, at Dartmouth College. Burns is a resident of nearby Walpole, NH so the Upper Connecticut River Valley is kind…
I can’t quite say that the run out and back to Kansas City, MO for the annual Futurity Show & Sale has gotten to be old hat. The simple fact is that there are just too many variables with a team of 40ish alpacas, two trailers, and 46+ hours of drive time to take anything…
It was back in the late summer or early fall of last year, when the idea first began to percolate as something more than just a fanciful throw-away line: why don’t we go to Nationals in Denver next March? There were of course any number of perfectly reasonable retorts to that query, not the least…
Hello and greetings from the currently snowy and chilly side of the freezing/thawing see-saw that Mother Nature has gifted us here so far in 2019. Applying the jinx here of course but we actually had a period of more sustained cold towards the end of November than we had in late December (oh 2018, we…
We just had a fantastic weekend in Bend, Oregon at the Snow Diamond Select auction! Thank you to the Greene family of Snow Diamond Alpacas for including us in their lovely event! While the sale was of course the primary reason for returning to Bend, we had also been invited to come and stay over…
