After making us sweat for several weeks Saphira finally had her first cria yesterday afternoon. It was the sort of uneventful maiden birth that makes you think she’d always known how to do that. “Thanks for watching but I’ve really got things all under control here folks!” Her 11 month due date, even before which…
Though it ended up being just the boys and I participating and watching our home-based fireworks show last night we still had an excellent time. It’s funny but there seems to be a transformation that happens in a kid’s mind (or at least in my kids’ minds) somewhere between 5 and 10 years of age where…
The title kind of says it all! I really can’t believe it’s July 4th already. Hope everyone has had a a great holiday weekend wherever you may be. Here we had Jen’s family over for a midday barbecue of burgers and delicious pork by-products. I confess that having personally trimmed the toe nails of some…
We’ve always been kind of circumspect whenever folks have asked us about our kids and their involvement with the farm. Yes, the kids may have in the past shown flashes of interest in the farm and it’s management but not what one would call a real passion. Something which we were ok with. We felt…
On days like this one I realize that there will be very little time to sit and write down anything worthy of your time. Unless of course you enjoy punch-drunk brain drivel. In any case I renamed my Twitter account @CCNFAlpacas (it was CCNFVT before) to make it a bit easier for alpaca folk to…
We just spent all of last week with our kids on a small ship touring the Galapagos Islands, bookended by nights in the Ecuadorian cities of Guayaquil and Quito. Quite a trip! There is literally nothing quite like the Galapagos anywhere else in the world. The opportunity to see so many species (many of which…
