Oh man, I’m almost giddy: I just looked at the calendar and saw that there are really only 2.5 weeks left in our kids soccer season! Does that mean I’m not a true soccer dad? So be it. Much as I love watching them play it is safe to say that the 5 day a…
What a whirlwind 4 days we’ve had here on the farm. Saturday dawned and the mountainside seemed to wake up in a cloud in more ways than one. Though the fog did burn off by late morning, I will admit now that we went into National Alpaca Farm Days, last weekend with a bit of…
Yours truly has spent the last few days playing glorified chauffeur to my kids while Jen is off at the ARI genetic conference in Houston. Thursday I think I spent 3.5 hours in the car: they are lucky they’re cute! I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up on our website yesterday and today during…
After three months of having the boys around, the farm and particularly the house where my office is, is almost eerily quiet. I took Sam and Max to school this morning, having to leave 15 minutes earlier than normal in anticipation of the Irene-related detour we’ll be dealing with for many months ahead in the…
We had three boys born on Tuesday and then one little female born yesterday afternoon. That’s kind of a microcosm of our 2011 male/female ratio. Is there some kind of booby prize if by the end of the season we have 40 white male crias on the ground? C’est la vie. Our youngest son’s club…
Five years ago we started an August/September tradition of taking our kids, and often some of their friends, up to the Great Vermont Corn Maze in Danville. It has never let us down. Yes, after 90+ minutes of wandering around the 10 acre field it’s often common to start getting short with one another. You…
