Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Training my replacement?
We’ve always been kind of circumspect whenever folks have asked us about our kids and their involvement with the farm. Yes, the kids may have in the past shown flashes of interest in the farm and it’s management but not what one would call a real passion. Something which we were ok with. We felt…
Reworking the Twitter account
On days like this one I realize that there will be very little time to sit and write down anything worthy of your time. Unless of course you enjoy punch-drunk brain drivel. In any case I renamed my Twitter account @CCNFAlpacas (it was CCNFVT before) to make it a bit easier for alpaca folk to…
Oh, Toto! We are SO not in Kansas anymore!
We just spent all of last week with our kids on a small ship touring the Galapagos Islands, bookended by nights in the Ecuadorian cities of Guayaquil and Quito. Quite a trip! There is literally nothing quite like the Galapagos anywhere else in the world. The opportunity to see so many species (many of which…
Back home
Just got home late yesterday morning and hit the ground running. The females in the due group apparently were waiting to have their head-midwife nearby before letting the flood gates open as we had two crias born just while we were in route home from Boston, then another came this AM too. It’s good to…
CCNF Chronicles going on a temporary hiatus
We are taking our boys on a trip to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador, leaving later today. It’s a trip that my parents took me on when I was a little bit younger than Max is now and to say it left an impression would be an understatement. The islands and their flora and fauna…
Giving in to modernity, CCNF on Twitter
I’ve never met a cutting edge I wasn’t happy to be behind by quite a bit it seems. I decided it was high time to open an account on Twitter, even though it is something I have generally mocked up until now. Does anyone really need to know what I (or anyone else for that…