“…All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring I am not a fan of back to back show weekends. In fact, I am really more whatever the opposite of a fan is. Though a condensed spring show season such…
There are few things more obviously joyous and playful that we as alpaca breeders get to witness than the post-show pasture pronk the show team animals inevitably go on whenever we first get home from an event and they get off of the trailers and run out into their respective paddocks, often greeted by their…
Yes, it may feel a little strange to to be thinking about our spring 2018 show season starting up again when we just got dumped on by the latest nor’easter to make its way inland from the coast – but such is the reality of March in northern New England. We have for the better…
So…about those show results from the combined Empire Alpaca Extravaganza and NEAOBA Fall Alpaca Show (hands down winner of the award for most utilitarian show name, BTW, perhaps a reaction to its previous incarnation when it was know as the Green Mountain Alpaca Fall Spectacular?), that together formed our new favorite show weekend, AKA, The…
It’s a little hard to remember exactly how we felt now a couple of weeks back at the dual show — the Empire Alpaca Extravaganza & NEAOBA Fall Alpaca Show — that was correctly billed as the Showtacular, held over the course of 3 days in Syracuse, NY. That would to a great degree be…
What a way to go about acquiring a new truck! You can ask anyone that has survived my first 43 years on this earth: I’ve rarely been one to learn a lesson the easy way. When our farm truck experienced what were diagnosed at the time as fuel filter problems on the runs to/from the…
