Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Rinsing the dust out
We both looked at each other gleefully this morning when we heard the patter of rain on our roof. Nothing can kill the appearance of a great alpaca fleece after all like days of dry weather combined with a good dust bath these critters like to give themselves. So it was that after tending to…
Gearing up the whole team
Oh man, I’m almost giddy: I just looked at the calendar and saw that there are really only 2.5 weeks left in our kids soccer season! Does that mean I’m not a true soccer dad? So be it. Much as I love watching them play it is safe to say that the 5 day a…
Mama drama
File this one under “careful what you wish for, it just might come true!” When I mentioned the other day that things around the farm had been a little dull and repetitive of late, I perhaps said it a bit too loudly. Way to go and apply the jinx meathead! After 14 years and hundreds of…
Getting our Bells rung
Sorry not to have posted as much lately. The truth is I didn’t expect that any of you would find stories of commutes to and from school/soccer practice/games mixed in with exciting tales of rain falling on an alpaca farm all that exciting. New England as a whole (yours truly included) has also spent the…
NAFD, a (small grey) changing of the guard, and other misadventures
What a whirlwind 4 days we’ve had here on the farm. Saturday dawned and the mountainside seemed to wake up in a cloud in more ways than one. Though the fog did burn off by late morning, I will admit now that we went into National Alpaca Farm Days, last weekend with a bit of…
Some updates on roads in the area for National Alpaca Farm Days
Since I first posted directions to the farm in the immediate post-Irene/apocalypse-redux state that we were all in around here 2 weeks ago, the local road infrastructure has improved considerably. Yes, there are still parts of nearby major highways (106 between Downer’s Four Corners and Springfield, as well as Rt. 131 west of that same…