Tuesday May 20, 2014 It’s pasture vacuuming day today. If you see someone zipping around pulling a big power rake with a tractor, being slightly covered with “poop dust”, that’ll be me. 🙂 Having the beans pulverized as we pick … Continued
Monday May 19, 2014 It’s time to get the camera out and record the way every alpaca here looks before shearing. It goes in their records and well, you know I love taking their pictures anyway. 🙂 But lately, wow, … Continued
Saturday May 17, 2014 Today is our first ever Spring Open Barn Day! The weather will be perfect, and alpacas all look great and we hope you will stop in for a bit today. We’ll be open from 10 – … Continued
Friday May 16, 2014 Just a few final touches for setting up today and we’ll be ready for our first ever Spring Open Barn Day tomorrow! I remember when we first decided to hold and Open Barn day in the … Continued
Thursday May 15, 2014 The forecast for the weekend looks perfect! We’ll be open on Saturday from 10:00 – 4:00. I sure hope you will come out to enjoy a beautiful day at Blue Moon Ranch. Today I’ll be adding … Continued
Wednesday May 14, 2014 With all the rain and snow we’ve had and now that it’s warming up a bit, the grass is exploding! Yay! If the grass gets too long, the alpacas will avoid it, just in case there … Continued
Tuesday May 13, 2014 It’s still very cold in the early morning here but should be warming up with lots of sun expected today. I opened up new grazing areas for the girls yesterday and they were happily munching out … Continued
Monday May 12, 2014 It’s a very chilly 21 degrees outside here! I’m so glad we see a warming trend before our Open Barn event next weekend. I’m moving more fiber out to the Yarn Barn today and tomorrow I’ll … Continued
Sunday May 11, 2014 Happy Mother’s Day! To all the moms who have loved a little someone more than you loved yourself, we celebrate you today. To my mom, living in Kentucky, (the best mom ever) thank you for all … Continued
Saturday May 10, 2014 I checked the forecast this morning and in big red letters it says “Winter Weather Advisory!” As in 12 – 18 inches of new snow! It can’t be an April Fool’s day joke, so I’ll go … Continued
Friday May 9, 2014 More snow is likely today, so I guess my pasture vacuuming will have to wait. It’s pretty wet out there but also turning such a nice green. Hay consumption now is about half of what it … Continued
Thursday May 8, 2014 Bits of snow yesterday, more rain this morning, but for some reason most of the herd wanted to stay out of the barn last night. It wasn’t a downpour and they do have lots of fleece … Continued
Wednesday May 7, 2014 The new girls have been introduced to the rest of the herd and it all went very smoothly. These two will have their babies in early June, so my main concern now must be to keep … Continued