Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A deal that went horribly, terribly right.
It was some five and a half years ago as I sat in my basement office searching the internet for new light colored females to add to our foundation herd that we came across Tessora. Her discovery came after several frustrating days of calling up breeders that had females listed, often times for exorbitant prices…
At play in the land of the show girls
No no, not Las Vegas. Though now that I think of it with some of those untrimmed top knots they do look like they could be dancing on the strip, particularly during the evening pronks! Having been off tending to other school/child related business when Jen and Kim started breeding some of the visiting females…
Rocky Mountain adventure revisited
We’re back on the farm now happily dodging the trees as they come at us in the forms of breedings, new births, sick animals, and the ever present soccer or lacrosse practices/games. Safe to say that though we missed our kids terribly while we were away, the adults in this household won’t really be mourning…
A return to the scene of the crime…sort of.
It was the late spring of 1996 and Jen and I, married for less than a year, had traveled to Denver, CO for that year’s AOBA National Conference and Show. Things were moving pretty fast at that point for a couple of 24 year olds. Less than 2 years prior, having just moved back home…
A week in pictures
It’s been a while since I’ve gone three days without polluting cyberspace with something here on the blog. A sign of the times. The effort of prepping 30 fleeces for Nationals (that would be Jen, see pic below) while simultaneously managing our kids school and sports schedules, and officially kicking off the 2011 breeding season…
Like the Emerald Isle without the Guinness and Jameson
The farm today feels and looks a bit like my imagined vision of Ireland: very wet and very green. Unfortunately it’s missing the fun-loving carousing and singing from the local pub. Perhaps there’s something that can be done to address that? The yearling boys that were kicked out of the Main Barn late last week…