Glacial melt

The Arena, which houses our female production herd at the top of the farm, has been in a state of relative lockdown since last week’s big rains. The downside of having beautiful  20′ wide shed roofs running down both sides of that 200′ long building is that in a winter like 2010/2011 those sheds become…

Power restored

It really is beautiful out today at the farm: the sun is shining, the alpacas are back out eating from their outdoor feeders, and the trees all look like they are part of a crystalline forest. Of course that last part is much easier to appreciate now that power has been restored to the Arena….

Enough Already!

So this is quickly rounding into form as the snowiest winter of my adulthood. Though I’ve yet to add up the cumulative snowfall here, I would guess that after the 18 to 20 inches we got yesterday and today that we’ve got to be at 5’+ at this point for the year and February is…