Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
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…
Dodging the trees as they come at us
What a crazy week it’s been here. Not bad, mind you but just mind numbing in the fullness of the calendar. Some of my personal numbness may also be coming from watching my Red Sox self-destruct in slow motion. Just brutal. Jen got home from the ARI conference in Houston, TX late on Sunday night,…
House cleaning between commutes!
Yours truly has spent the last few days playing glorified chauffeur to my kids while Jen is off at the ARI genetic conference in Houston. Thursday I think I spent 3.5 hours in the car: they are lucky they’re cute! I’ve been doing a bit of tidying up on our website yesterday and today during…
Close only counts in bocce, horse shoes, and hand grenades: fiber boys at CCNF
For years we have felt that non-breeding alpaca males are the natural by-product of a serious breeding program. While everyone must of course use their own standard when evaluating young boys (and sometimes older boys too), we generally feel that if we are really asking ourselves whether a given male is a legitimate Herdsire prospect…