The Herdsires here at CCNF have been working at full bore for about a month now. Though we normally don’t get things going in that regard here until around the 1st of July most years, with the family’s decision to take a quick early summer vacation to the UK at the end of June, yours truly…
It’s official: for the 2nd year in a row our spectacular male, Snowmass Matrix Majesty, was named dark Futurity Herdsire of the Year! As a bonus his stablemate, Snowmass Conopa’s Kahuna whom we co own with our…
The title “Futurity Champion” brings with it perhaps more cachet than any other term in the US alpaca industry. Though the Futurity is often not the largest alpaca show in the country, it has always been the toughest. It is unquestionably the Major Leagues to every other large show’s AAA ball. If you are in the the ribbons…
For the first 10 years of the NAAS’s existence we helped (ok, truth in advertising: mostly Jennifer helped, while I schlepped our kids around more than usual throughout the month of March) to actually organize and run the show itself….
Oh, the joys of a late winter road trip! After watching and fretting over the weather forecast starting almost a week in advance — and with things looking increasingly dire with each passing day — we got the automated call from Sam’s high school last Tuesday night (3/11), that his school was in fact cancelled…
Jen headed up the hill Christmas morning at 6 AM to do the same thing we had been doing for the last month: check on our final due female, Ascension, who had been living in the Arena’s warm room since November. Within minutes the phones were ringing down at the house, phones which I was…
