Thursday, April 20, 2023 It’s 19 degrees and a few snow flakes are falling. That’s a perfect spring day and a nice slow warm up is expected later in the week. The alpacas are enjoying their warm coats this morning … Continued
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 The guardian dogs have been fully integrated back to outside life. So now the big garage clean up has begun. I’m too embarrassed to show you what it looked like in there with those dogs living … Continued
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 A little snow today will bring us back to reality but we can handle it. Significant melting continues and the light at the end of the tunnel is brighter. The dogs, both house dogs and guardian … Continued
Monday, April 17, 2023 We’re seeing glimpses of mud in the areas with lots of southern exposures and it’s all good. Just ask Blue. lol I don’t know exactly how he got himself so dirty but I do know … Continued
Sunday, April 16, 2023 The alpacas are steppin’ out. They seem to have figured out that early morning is a good time to go exploring because the snow is still hard enough to hold them. Then a few of them … Continued
Saturday, April 15, 2023 With record breaking snowpack comes record breaking flooding. Most of the snow in the higher elevations hasn’t even started to melt yet, and a few cold nights has slowed things down nicely. But all that water … Continued
Thursday, April 13, 2023 So much melting! People are sending messages asking about our flooding situation. So I’ll tell you – we are OK for now but one of the streets in the town nearest to us (Kamas) was closed … Continued
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 Well it seems our working dogs are now asking to be 9 to 5ers. They love being outside with the alpacas and trouncing through the snow all day but when we go in at night after … Continued
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 As the melting continues I am amazed at how much snow we still have on the ground. But it IS melting! 😀 There is still too much snow on the ground for the alpacas to venture … Continued
Monday, April 10, 2023 Nice slow melting continues and we are little by little reclaiming our space. Farmer Ed reclaimed his tractor after quite a bit of snow blowing and the light at the end of the tunnel is getting … Continued
Sunday, April 9, 2023 Happy Easter! Things will be quiet here today since the gentle boy is spending time with his east coast grandma. She doesn’t get to see him nearly as much as I do so I’m happy to … Continued
Saturday, April 8, 2023 The birds seem to enjoy the blue cloudless skies here as much as we do. When the gentle boy and I were sitting outside last week on the first ‘dog release’ day, we saw a bald … Continued
Friday, April 7, 2023 Happy Friday and another no snow day! I hope this weekend we’ll be able to let the guardian dogs out again, but because of Juno’s spay and recovery needs, we think one more day of quiet … Continued
