With our kids’ Thursday afternoon ski program scheduled to start up this week, what could have been a rather scattered day filled with multiple commutes in two different directions, instead got fairly straightforward when Mother Nature intervened and gave us our first snow day of 2012. There I was, shortly after 6AM, refreshing the school…
Sorry not to have posted as much lately. The truth is I didn’t expect that any of you would find stories of commutes to and from school/soccer practice/games mixed in with exciting tales of rain falling on an alpaca farm all that exciting. New England as a whole (yours truly included) has also spent the…
As you may have gathered from posts over the last month or so, the birth ratio of males to females around here this spring and summer has been rather slanted towards the testosterone. It happens. In fact the whole reason the Arena here is the size it is (140′ x 200′ when you include the…
After almost 36 straight hours of rain the sun finally broke out yesterday afternoon and as I write this the farm is inhabited by many disheveled looking but quickly drying out alpacas. I was headed up to the Arena around 5PM yesterday get Majesty his second breeding of the day — a good gig if…
It’s also just literally raining at the moment as well, something which we actually need. Yes, with the due females having conspired to go on a virtual maternity strike over the past couple of weeks we knew the logjam was bound to brake sooner or later. Of course what fun would it be for that…
Though I knew in the back of my mind that it was coming up, it somehow slipped by me that yesterday marked one year since we started this blog. The drivel you are currently reading is also coincidentally the blog’s 200th post by the way. I know this because WordPress says it is so. Admittedly,…
