Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
A weather event at the North American Alpaca Show? Why I never…
It just feels like the good old days again, very fitting for the North American’s 10th anniversary actually! For years the check-in day of the NAAS was infamously plagued by bad weather of one sort or another. There was nothing quite like doing health and color checks on 1200+ drowned rats. It always put exhibitors…
Getting our trans fat on
So by my calculations when we call it quits for the year in early November, our 2011 show season will have conservatively added up to some 21 days away from home. That’s 21 days either at shows themselves or traveling to or from them. As anyone that spends much time away from the comforts of…
Trailer packing today
Can you smell the excitement?! I suspect the primary thing Kim and Jen can smell right now is the 5 months of dust coming off of all of our show supplies as they are brought out of storage at the Main Barn. Thank goodness for Swiffers and air compressors. All the show supplies – both…
That’s it: I quit writing sales copy!*
Just a few more additions to the sales listings today before we head off to the NAAS later this week. For the record there 30 alpacas listed on our site right now, which is just a coincidence not an arbitrary round number we decided on. That’s more alpacas than we have formally listed for private…
A couple of new additions
A quite afternoon here on the farm: both of our kids are off at sleepovers at friends’ houses. This shall, at the very least, lead to watching a cheesy movie (or two), a nice bottle of wine, and sleeping in tomorrow morning. All craziness is relative. I have posted a couple of new critters to…
Some photo updates
Just a quick note to say that I have updated some of the existing sales listings on our web site (Open Herd and AN shall have to wait a bit) using new photographs I took the other day. If time allows between now and the NAAS there will also be 5 or 6 entirely new…