We’re back on the farm now happily dodging the trees as they come at us in the forms of breedings, new births, sick animals, and the ever present soccer or lacrosse practices/games. Safe to say that though we missed our kids terribly while we were away, the adults in this household won’t really be mourning…
It was the late spring of 1996 and Jen and I, married for less than a year, had traveled to Denver, CO for that year’s AOBA National Conference and Show. Things were moving pretty fast at that point for a couple of 24 year olds. Less than 2 years prior, having just moved back home…
So that whole trophyless-at-the-Futurity thing I talked about a few weeks ago? As of this morning it’s not really true any more. We are thrilled to announce that our co owned Herdsires, Snowmass Elite Legend (owned with Snowmass Alpacas and Tripping Gnome Farm) and Snowmass Matrix Majesty (owned with Snowmass Alpacas) were just awarded the 2011…
Somehow the grass looked even greener this morning when I drove up to the Arena to do cria check at 6AM. I’m not sure if the farm missed us while we were away this weekend but we definitely missed it. Of all the hotels we’ve stayed at in Syracuse over the years — first while…
Word from Kimmy back on the farm is that Star Saphire gave birth yesterday morning to a beautiful little beige King of the Ladies girl! That is not only the first cria of the 2011 birth class but also Kinger’s first born for CCNF (his actual first was born a couple of weeks ago at…
Ah, the final journey out of the spring show season. I guess we’ll see if I’m still quite as wistful about having missed last week’s Futurity haul by Sunday night, huh? This one is a short hop, skip, and a jump relatively speaking. We’re just heading over to Syracuse which at 5 +/- hours of…
