Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
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The blockhead in winter
We’re grateful to those of you who often come up to me or Jen and mention how much you enjoy reading this blog. I have to say that I’m always amused by the small percentage of people who can’t imagine that I’m the one sitting behind the keyboard on this little enterprise of ours. Don’t…
Lonely boys…
I can often measure the hormonal maturation process of our yearling males anecdotally, just by looking out of my office window. In the spring, when those feed groups of young boys (we usually have at least 2 different ones) are still just approaching their respective 1st birthdays, there is of course the odd jostling here…
We are never ever getting back together again (until 2014 anyway).
With apologies to Ms. Swift, we call this meeting to adjournment. We’re done, we’re out. If you are a female alpaca on this farm that did not get bred yet as of late last week, well then no offense to you, but I officially don’t care until after shearing day in May at the earliest,…
Settling in…
As I write this on early Friday afternoon there is technically snow falling outside of my office window. Though I am an enthusiastic alpine skier, I can’t claim to be totally happy about this. I suspect my psychological state, at least this time of the year, consistently lags behind the local climactic reality by at…
2013 Empire Alpaca Extravaganza: the show seasons ends with a bang!
Well that was interesting to say the least. We honestly didn’t head to the Empire show in Syracuse, NY last Friday thinking that we could possibly improve upon the previous week’s results from the Green Mountain show, yet improve we did. How well did we do? I think that both Jennifer and I would say…
THAT is what I call a good weekend!
So as readers of this blog know by now, we spent this past weekend up at the Green Mountain show in Essex, VT. Perhaps just as important to us as having a show that we only have to drive 1.5 hours to get to though, is the fact that Essex is located right next to…