The photo at left is of two siblings sharing a midday nap in the sun, though in this case the siblings in question are not twins. Every good picture deserves a good story of sorts… We owe much to our beloved female Opal. It’s not enough that after winning multiple Championships herself, including two at…
Jen, Kim, and Sam spent most of yesterday afternoon doing what will most likely be the final cria shearings of 2011. We’ve learned the hard way over the years that if we push that activity much past September 1st around here, the weather can get sketchy at a moment’s notice. No one, after all, wants…
With 12+ crias on the ground here, Jen and Kim have been starting to shear some little ones over the past several days. I know breeders have different ideas about when and how to shear their crias and for us it’s all really just based upon what we’ve experienced. Namely that by waiting until a…
It is done! After shearing 76 alpacas yesterday we got that yearly chore whipped out in 3 days total, which means that tomorrow (when we had a tentatively scheduled day #4) we don’t have to get our game faces on again. I have nothing but admiration for those folks that shear for a living. Yes,…
I am beat right now. Which perhaps begs the question why I am here in my office at 10:18 posting this when I should be curled up in bed? In any case today was a relatively easy beginning to what will either be a 3 or 4 day adventure depending on how hard we push…
Well after all this bluster about big rain storms all we’ve seen so far are lots of overcast skies and roughly 70 degree weather today (cue monsoon/hail storm). Jen went shopping earlier at one of the big-lot stores for our upcoming shearing days, equipping the break room at the Arena with more cookies, brownies, chips, rolls,…
