a stray cat leaves kittens in your barn. This is the type of thing that never happened to me when I was growing up in a house in a neighborhood. Random creatures taking up residence? How unusual, and fun! We once had a possum that liked to live on our porch eating our cats’ food [...]
This morning I woke up with an unpleasant feeling in my stomach. It was that all too familiar feeling of being in the path of a hurricane. Since 1992, I have lived close enough to the water to be evacuating for hurricanes. We have been through all this with Hurricanes Andrew, Dennis, Ivan, and Katrina [...]
Here is 4 month old MagKenna Lei. She is truly our pride and joy! Our first Magnum cria, and can you believe that she is black? I mean really black. (Magnum is fawn and her dam, Antigia, is grey) She has been shorn and it is growing in BLACK! When she was born I [...]
“Nobody can be in good health if he does not have fresh air, sunshine, and good water.”
~ Flying Hawk, Ogala Sioux Chief
Rainy Day on the Farm
Tropical Storm Fay dissipated into a Tropical Depression and just about missed us. Hooray! We are having quite a bit of rain though. Wet alpacas look kinda funny like fluffy dogs do when they get wet. Always good for a giggle.
Busy today preparing for a rainy weekend. Hubby has been tracking Faye since the beginning. Our favorite place to do this is noaa. Currently Faye has max sustained winds at 45MPH. She does seem to be leaving a lot of rain in her wake. Our ground is already saturated from a rainy summer, but we [...]
Our farm is in the Deep South. Alpacas can be raised in the South, but the heat and humidity is a challenge for alpaca farmers. Alpacas can actually die of heat stress so we are serious about keeping our critters cool. Fans are a must. Alpacas cool through their bellies so we water their tummies [...]
Max and Mitch
About a year ago a Super Walmart joined our town. It’s about a mile and a half from our farm. Since it is on the way to everything we do, we go there alot. Unusual I know, to have a farm so close to such a big box store. Our town is [...]
I have always wondered about making my kids work on the farm. I didn’t grow up on the farm so I don’t have a first hand example to follow. The dairy farmers who have all the members of the family working long hours, and the families where children have farm chores in the hours [...]
One of the main reasons that the alpaca lifestyle worked for us was that it allowed me to be home with the children and work at the same time. Being a stay at home mom (SAHM) was important to me.
When we first got the alpacas, my first child was three and I was pregnant with [...]
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