Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
Show Prep 101, Part 1
It has occurred to me lately that given the time of year it would be good to post something dealing with the topic of show preparation. That is after all, in one form or another, what most of our late winters and early springs have been taken up with for the past eleven years (we…
Glacial melt
The Arena, which houses our female production herd at the top of the farm, has been in a state of relative lockdown since last week’s big rains. The downside of having beautiful 20′ wide shed roofs running down both sides of that 200′ long building is that in a winter like 2010/2011 those sheds become…
A quiet weekend
There was quite honestly not a whole lot going on here the past few days, which after an eventful week of ice storms, downed trees, and the seemingly never-ending herd health “day” was really kind of nice. Friday things were so mellow I even made a double batch of chocolate chip cookies for Max’s fourth…
Chipping away
So what were the odds of us hitting another pot hole and wrecking another tire on our Prius? Pretty slim I would say but we still managed to do it again. On another date night no less. Is our Toyota a prude, passing moral judgement on us? It only took us 15 minutes this time…
Fine tuning the show rosters
So we went through all of the prospective show animals over the weekend and it looks like the upcoming season is going to be a busy one. Which from my perspective is just as well. After years of conditioning ourselves to a certain level of chaos, if we are at a show and not running…
Power restored
It really is beautiful out today at the farm: the sun is shining, the alpacas are back out eating from their outdoor feeders, and the trees all look like they are part of a crystalline forest. Of course that last part is much easier to appreciate now that power has been restored to the Arena….