Greetings! It’s looking very much like New England here in Virginia these days.  It snowed last week and we still have a covering on the ground – pretty amazing as it typically would have melted within 12 hours or so in years past.  Weather patterns do seem to be changing… Now if we can get [...]

I’m baack! Two months isn’t too bad… September was a pretty busy month preparing for the VAOBA Alpaca Expo. The show had lower attendance this year than last but it went off very well from all accounts. Sometimes it is difficult to know that when you are in the middle of things. The affiliate added [...]

Can it possibly be true? Is fall in the air??? It’s almost 11 am and it is still 68 degrees in Woodford, VA! A lot has gone on since the last post – mostly beginning on the last weekend of August. My friend came down from PA to attend the Breeders Edge Auction with me. [...]

Oh my goodness. I am so embarrassed I am not sure I should even be posting! This should prove interesting since the last time I posted was in January!?! Yikes. Well, lets do the easy recaps – the alpaca shows for the year so far… My year as a show superintendent started with the Carolina [...]

Hello all…. We finally have sun again in Virginia. Of course with it we have temperatures in the high 80′s and 90′s. Once summer hits I guess that is the best we can expect. The alpacas aren’t too keen on it but they all enjoy those hose downs every couple of hours during the heat [...]

It’s raining! Again. The ground is so saturated that we just do not have room from more water from above. I am getting very worried that this will end up one of those years that it is too wet to grow hay. That’s one of the downfalls we face here being dry lot. Or more [...]

Greetings one and all… Here it is Janaury already. Surprisingly enough there is snow on the ground still. It has been an exceptionally cold winter and we have had more snow this season than any other years since we moved to Virginia in 1990. Unfortunately for Chuck and I we have apparently become acclimated to [...]

Greetings! I sit here this morning procrastinating…. How long do I think I can really avoid Christmas shopping? Not much longer. Today will have to be the day. I had really hoped for my check from my last 2009 show in order to do the kids up well but apparently that is not in the [...]

It seems we have been on cria watch forever with Clara… She’s still pregnant and it is day 337 now coming to a close. Unfortunately, as closely as we were watching today one of the other dams aborted her fetus. She was 199 days pregnant and it was a girl – dark skinned. Another one [...]