Jim King, RIP
Just heard within the last hour the horrible news of the passing of our friend and colleague, Jim King of Skyeview Alpacas. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sue and and the rest of the King family…
Royal Ring of Fire
Just a quick one on this gloriously rainy — it makes the grass grow and takes the dust out of the show animals’ fleeces, it’s all good — Sunday morning to say that the stud fee on CCNF Royal Ring of Fire has been adjusted downward for the first time ever. What that means is…
Freaky warm
Having seen the kids off to school, I just walked into my office and opened up all of my windows. It smells great out there: the pastures are turning more green every day, and I can hear the birds singing. Taken as a snapshot there’s not a whole lot not to love about it and…
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everybody! To those of you of other persuasions, enjoy the proverbial Chinese food and the empty movie theaters, I hear that’s pretty great too! We’re gathered here with the extended Lutz family from Cambridge, MA (my mom and dad) and NYC (sister, brother, and two nieces) taking in the whole occasion. The kids…
Tale of the 2011 breeding tape
What is an alpaca breeding pimp facilitator to do now that the off season has truly arrived? Read, drink beer, and whine about the weather? We will of course be doing all of that and more in the days and months to come but I also had an inkling this morning. Sorry. To paraphrase Crash Davis…
Hey baby, what’s your name?
The time arrives each fall when after months of talking about the members of a given year’s birth class as “so-and-so’s cria,” we actually get down to the nitty gritty of naming these little buggers for real. For the most part that task falls to yours truly with Jen and Kim chiming in now and…