The arrival of November has meant that we are now officially commencing our 24th year of breeding alpacas and being in the alpaca business, arguably the last 10 years or so spent at our current size and rate of production (200-300 total animals at any given time, approximately 70 crias born each year). As one…
So, are we all having fun yet? Back in the late winter as we watched the annual Futurity show in Kansas City get justifiably cancelled due to the pandemic, I’m not sure that we had any real notion that we’d still be staring into that same proverbial gun barrel come the fall of 2020. Naivete,…
For the better part of the past 2 months now, we have had the company of not just our college-aged sons but also their respective girlfriends. Though the grocery bills from feeding a household of 6 people that includes 4 20-somethings have been occasionally eye watering, it has actually been really nice having the extra…
So look, let’s begin with this from the Department of Keeping It Real: I’m not sure that when it comes to the final math, that one can repeatedly haul alpacas long distances with diesel trucks and perhaps more importantly, travel as much as we do both domestically and overseas, and still claim some kind of…
Our son, Sam, is working his way towards becoming a full-fledged commercial pilot, with over 500 hours already logged in the cockpit of various planes but when he’s home from college and has some time on his hands, he also likes to play around with his drones and do a little amateur movie making for…
Most everyone that has raised alpacas for any considerable length of time has an origin story of sorts. Ours began with Jennifer’s senior year environmental engineering project in Ecuador for Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where the mere idea — said mostly as a joke — of “a couple of llamas for the backyard one day” was…
