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The Farm Sitting Conundrum

Finding someone that you trust to look after your alpacas when you are not home is one of the biggest challenges that many people face. If you are lucky enough to find a person that is attentive and does a really good job though, treat them well as they are worth their weight in gold!…
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A Change of Latitude

It was roughly 10 years ago that Jen and I, along with my parents, bought a small house here on the island of St. Barths in the central Caribbean. It started out as an investment property, the idea being that we would rent it out in the years ahead in order to defray some of…
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Building Discontent

So we will see if our cleanup crew is still speaking to us in a few days. After multiple local stories of buildings and barns collapsing under the weight of the recent snowfall, we decided yesterday that the buildup on the Arena’s southern shed roof needed to come off. Unfortunately the only method that would…
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Fear and loathing on date night

Jen and I have been pretty lucky over the years with some of the people that have worked for us.  Though it seems like it was yesterday, it was in fact five and a half years ago that two special young women entered our lives for the first time, both within months of each other….
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