This post was supposed to go up yesterday but I was mired in Photoshopland (making up placards for the NEAA fleece display boxes), a place to which I shall be returning shortly. Anyway… Over the years it has sometimes been a struggle to present a good range of genetic diversity for us at the Elite,…
Just back from Syracuse and amongst other things really, really happy not to be creating any more blog posts on my laptop from a Hampton Inn with no mouse. Bratty, I know but there you have it. While I can’t complain about our results over the past week (4 Champs, 4 Reserves) at all, it’s…
I would like to observe that even the best hotel beds in the world fail to live up to that which I find at home. Add in lumpy pillows and noisy air conditioning and you’ve got a winning combination. That is one of the major factors (along with missing my family, obviously) that motivated me…
As many of you know, since 2007 we have co-hosted the National Elite Alpaca Auction with our partners at Virginia Alpaca Farm & Breeding Co., for the first few years at their beautiful place in Leesburg, VA. For 2010 though we have changed things up quite a bit and the event, to which we have…
Our farm is located geographically in an area of nearly unmatched beauty. We are surrounded by almost as much wilderness as it is possible to be without feeling disconnected from the outside world altogether. Things feel balanced here. Admittedly the advent of broadband internet access and satellite TV obviously play no small part in that…
Sorry to have been absent from the posting world for several days now. Yours truly was caught up doing final revisions on our farm’s entries for the upcoming National Elite auction in November. Much much more on that to come in the near future… The crias have been coming steadily now for the past 10…
