Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Bumped, bruised, and I don’t care!
In the realm of backyard games that can be played by a group of people I think perhaps only wiffle ball (baseball doesn’t imitate life and life doesn’t imitate baseball: they both imitate wiffle ball!) could possibly compete with pond hockey for the amount of fun generated. Though I will grant that the last time I…
Deprived alpacas
Yes, the rumors are true! We deny our animals so much that they are forced to eat snow to sustain themselves. Why would one want water out of a nicely heated Nelson waterer after all when you can chomp on the fluffy white stuff instead? Now if only they could drizzle some maple syrup on…
North American Alpaca Show
So as some of you may know Jen and I (with a strong emphasis on Jen) have been one of three groups of people that have together helped to run the North American Alpaca Show since its inception in 2002. Our partners in crime over that time have been Kevin O’Leary and Deb Shields of…
Storm update
This is a picture of the 4′ snow drifts that have developed outside our back door. The weather report is now calling for us to get @ 30″ of snow! The local ski areas must be beside themselves with delight given that this is happening right before one of their biggest weekends (MLK) of the…
Snow Day!
Maybe it’s because I’m still a child at heart but I find that I get as giddy as my kids do whenever school gets called off. This morning the three of us made celebratory pancakes. All snow days are made better by an early morning sugar high after all! Of course some of my happiness…
Walking In a Weaner Wonderland
weaner wean·er (wee-ner) -noun 1. A recently weaned animal. 2. A recently weaned alpaca at Cas-Cad-Nac Farm that behaves as if its world has come to an end while also constantly and simultaneously enquiring whether you, their shepherd, have any milk. So the first crias from the 2010 birth class have left their dams behind…