Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Let loose the (formerly fuzzy, now mostly naked) hounds!
Days like today on the farm quite literally make you happy to be alive! Perhaps it’s partly still the affect of post-shearing euphoria — as in “naya, naya, naya: we don’t have to do that again for 12 months” — but with the birds making their spring symphony, a wonderful breeze, 60 degrees, and nary…
Shear-o-Rama
It is done! After shearing 76 alpacas yesterday we got that yearly chore whipped out in 3 days total, which means that tomorrow (when we had a tentatively scheduled day #4) we don’t have to get our game faces on again. I have nothing but admiration for those folks that shear for a living. Yes,…
Shearing Day 1
I am beat right now. Which perhaps begs the question why I am here in my office at 10:18 posting this when I should be curled up in bed? In any case today was a relatively easy beginning to what will either be a 3 or 4 day adventure depending on how hard we push…
CCNF Golden Sambac
So let us see here. Sambac’s results for the spring of 2011 were 3 blue ribbons (including one at the Futurity) and 2 Reserve Championships. That’s three different judges (Jude Anderson, Tim Lavan, and Amanda VandenBosch) that have all now recognized his quality in the last month alone. That’s on top of his impressive show…
2011 cria #1: a first look
Well after all this bluster about big rain storms all we’ve seen so far are lots of overcast skies and roughly 70 degree weather today (cue monsoon/hail storm). Jen went shopping earlier at one of the big-lot stores for our upcoming shearing days, equipping the break room at the Arena with more cookies, brownies, chips, rolls,…
Peaking at the right time
Somehow the grass looked even greener this morning when I drove up to the Arena to do cria check at 6AM. I’m not sure if the farm missed us while we were away this weekend but we definitely missed it. Of all the hotels we’ve stayed at in Syracuse over the years — first while…