With 12+ crias on the ground here, Jen and Kim have been starting to shear some little ones over the past several days. I know breeders have different ideas about when and how to shear their crias and for us it’s all really just based upon what we’ve experienced. Namely that by waiting until a…
We’re actually away for a couple of nights in Montreal, Quebec seeing U2 (yes, again) in this most European of North American cities. Last night we took our kids to see and hear the band whose music, I in particular, have subjected them to ever since they were born. Though getting to bed around midnight…
I was tickled the other day when a friend of ours, Sue Monat of Happy Hearts Alpaca Farm, sent me a photo of a newborn female cria. The little girl in question had just been delivered by Saline, the SuperNova daughter they had bought from us a couple of years back the last time the…
After making us sweat for several weeks Saphira finally had her first cria yesterday afternoon. It was the sort of uneventful maiden birth that makes you think she’d always known how to do that. “Thanks for watching but I’ve really got things all under control here folks!” Her 11 month due date, even before which…
Though it ended up being just the boys and I participating and watching our home-based fireworks show last night we still had an excellent time. It’s funny but there seems to be a transformation that happens in a kid’s mind (or at least in my kids’ minds) somewhere between 5 and 10 years of age where…
The title kind of says it all! I really can’t believe it’s July 4th already. Hope everyone has had a a great holiday weekend wherever you may be. Here we had Jen’s family over for a midday barbecue of burgers and delicious pork by-products. I confess that having personally trimmed the toe nails of some…
