We finally made it home late last night from our family trip to Italy after a brief — and unplanned — 24 hour layover in Munich, Germany. Having failed to make our homebound connection to Boston on Monday afternoon, we learned that German Holiday Inns are just like the Holiday Inns here except that they…
Some parts of each year are just like this. We of course try to be as proactive as possible about things both in our family life as well as with stuff pertaining to the animals in the herd (as if that were really separate) but ultimately there come moments — and suspiciously they seem to…
When we originally built the CCNF Arena here in 2002, it was the single biggest construction project this farm had (or has) ever seen. Not only does it dwarf every other building here at 140′ x 200′ (if you count the 20′ sheds running down the sides) but unlike every other structure on this farm,…
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers out there! Three quarters of the Lutz family (though oddly enough not the mother) at CCNF are spending the day recovering from the 3 day shearing juggernaut that finally came to a merciful conclusion around 5:30 yesterday afternoon. We ended up doing 66 critters on the final day,…
Oh, the joys of a road trip! We’re sitting here in our hotel room in Grand Island, NE after 24 + hours of driving since Tuesday. We pulled in this morning for the Futurity after spending the night just a couple of hours away in Omaha. The 60 or so critters that were part of…
My thirteen year old (that’d be him on the left some years back) just stepped into my office long enough for a chuckle and to let me know that he thought I was a nit-wit. Point taken. Nonetheless, the fact is I’d much rather be photoshopping bad hat images onto my kids heads rather than updating…
