Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
An underrated skill
Remember when you were in high school and your teachers and parents would get on you if you procrastinated on a big paper? OK, so perhaps you were so well organized as well as a goody-goody that that never actually happened to you, in which case good for you. Gold star on your forehead and…
Royal Ring of Fire
Just a quick one on this gloriously rainy — it makes the grass grow and takes the dust out of the show animals’ fleeces, it’s all good — Sunday morning to say that the stud fee on CCNF Royal Ring of Fire has been adjusted downward for the first time ever. What that means is…
Just because I’m paranoid…
…doesn’t mean I’m not being followed. The picture at left was what happened when I went out into the weaner boy feed group this afternoon with my trusty camera in hopes of actually getting some pictures. Silly me. Curiously enough, their female counterparts were conversely rather sassy with me and struck a resulting pose or…
Starting to feel the itch
That would be the show itch. I’m sure that after we get home from the Futurity in a few weeks time I’ll be over it of course but for now it just feels like opening day of the baseball season: all things are possible and we’re eager to hit the road with the animals again…
Freaky warm
Having seen the kids off to school, I just walked into my office and opened up all of my windows. It smells great out there: the pastures are turning more green every day, and I can hear the birds singing. Taken as a snapshot there’s not a whole lot not to love about it and…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
My thirteen year old (that’d be him on the left some years back) just stepped into my office long enough for a chuckle and to let me know that he thought I was a nit-wit. Point taken. Nonetheless, the fact is I’d much rather be photoshopping bad hat images onto my kids heads rather than updating…