Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Not just another day at the park
For many years now we’ve made an effort to take our kids to at least one baseball game per season at Boston’s Fenway Park, preferably with all four of us as a family. This hasn’t generally been too hard as my dad and I have shared season tickets for the Red Sox since 1987, just…
Pictures from the baby boom
After almost 36 straight hours of rain the sun finally broke out yesterday afternoon and as I write this the farm is inhabited by many disheveled looking but quickly drying out alpacas. I was headed up to the Arena around 5PM yesterday get Majesty his second breeding of the day — a good gig if…
It’s a raining (fuzzy, four legged, 15-18 lb.) men
It’s also just literally raining at the moment as well, something which we actually need. Yes, with the due females having conspired to go on a virtual maternity strike over the past couple of weeks we knew the logjam was bound to brake sooner or later. Of course what fun would it be for that…
An empty nest
We are childless! Well, for a week anyway. Jen and I just got home yesterday afternoon from delivering the boys into the nurturing clutches of my extended family at their summer base on the outer part Cape Cod. We spent a few days down there ourselves cavorting with my sister (read: getting my ass kicked…
A girl we love
In the 9 years since we were first partners in the Herdsires that are collectively known as the North American Alpaca Stud, few lines have garnered less attention while in point of fact getting more done than that of Snowmass Andean Bronze. While he has never given us a male replacement we felt worthy of that…
Don’t mess with Porky!
So I woke up this morning and guffawed when I realized that I could add something new to the description we have in our sales materials for our young female, Jabulani. It seems that in addition to her many other positive traits she also enjoys kicking the sh!t out of porcupines! That old line you…