It seems as though the time has just flown by lately. Between getting ready for the upcoming fall event season — which kicked off for us last weekend with Alpaca Farm Days but which starts in earnest next week in Syracuse, NY at the Empire show — and shuttling our kids to and from school…
There must be something in the water around this place. Congratulations to our friend and long time CCNF staffer, Jason Godin and his new bride Tina! We were all happy to attend — yours truly was actually the best man — a small ceremony at their house just down the hill on Sunday afternoon, where…
The alpacas here at CCNF could care less that their herd manager has been off for the past week making wedding vows, changing her name, and doing all that gooey cuddly stuff that newlyweds do like staring into each other’s eyes just because they can (hey, been there, done that: it’s pretty great actually…but I…
We no longer have someone working for us named Kim McAllister. This is because this past Saturday our beloved herd manger, who has been on a well deserved break for the last week, married her fiance, Brian Duprey, in a small and raucous — turn it up to 11! — ceremony held at their house…
Some relatively big happenings here on the farm yesterday. For one, our female Boheme who, along with her little girl Musette (that’s her at left eyeballing me in the pasture), has been back in the general population since late last week, was bred for the first time since her daughter came to us via cesarean…
Well not permanently. We just drove yesterday at the crack of dawn to leave our boys in the ever-capable hands of our friends at Camp Hilltop in upstate NY for two weeks. The house here at the farm is definitely a quieter place than it was for the the first part of the summer, though…
