What is there to say about Syracuse, NY in November? It has a reputation for being a bit raw by now and this year certainly lived up (down?) to that. Waking up to snow and low double digits on Friday morning at our hotel, I was definitely grateful that my better half had the forethought…
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…
“…All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring I am not a fan of back to back show weekends. In fact, I am really more whatever the opposite of a fan is. Though a condensed spring show season such…
So here are the most relevant of our results from the NAAS/NAE double show which took place the weekend after Easter. As with the previous 16 editions of the North American, the event was again held at the Eastern States Exposition Center in western Massachusetts, just a short 2 hour drive straight down I-91 for…
There are few things more obviously joyous and playful that we as alpaca breeders get to witness than the post-show pasture pronk the show team animals inevitably go on whenever we first get home from an event and they get off of the trailers and run out into their respective paddocks, often greeted by their…
This past weekend brought to a close what was unquestionably one of our best years ever on the alpaca show circuit. Some of that is of course down to 20 years of experience breeding these amazing animals though undeniably, in order for 2017 to have gone as well as it did, the genetic stars also…
