Turkey Time!
Today was the day to butcher our turkeys for Thanksgiving!!  We have been waiting since April for this day!  This entire week the weather has been saying that it was going to be COLD & RAINY today.  We woke up and it was BEAUTIFUL!!!  Cold but beautiful!!  When I went out at 9:00 to start getting everything ready and there was ice on everything.  BRRR!!  We started setting up.  Julia built a fire in the drive way with some cinder blocks around to keep it contained.  I started getting everything else ready.  I ran to the store and got some ice (and a soda) and when I got back everything was ready to go. Once the fire was going we stacked up the cinder blocks and put a

One and only . . .
This might be my one and only political post on this blog.  I don’t get in to politics that much.  I don’t follow too closely that is going on in the world of politics more than I hear on TV/Radio/Friends, and even then, I really don’t pay much attention. This last few months I’ve been paying more attention to what has been going on in politics and it hasn’t been fun.  I don’t trust many politicians and the ones I do don’t get in the limelight much.  I’ve been listening to talk radio on my way home from work everyday (mainly Glenn Beck because he reminds me of a great friend in Phoenix) and I don’t like what I hear is going

2009 Alpaca Farm Day
Saturday was our 2nd annual National Alpaca Farm Day!  What a great day it was!  Julia and the girls had done a lot of work during the week to get the farm ready for the day.  During the evenings we worked on paper work, getting everything set-up, learning how to do needlefelting, etc.  This was going to be a great family event!  We all had a job to do, and we were ready to go. We had well over 100 people arrive this year.  I would say about 50% more than last year.  There were people almost all day from 9:00 am – 4:00 pm.  We met some of our neighbors, and that was great.  Found out that there is a small farm up the road that has dairy goats.  She is going to brin

Big Tom is home!
I started writing this last week, but with National Alpaca Farm Day preparations, I never got back to finish it.  So here’s the finished product!! Our new BIG TOM carder arrived!  It is SOOOOO cool!! We got home and this big box was on the front porch, and we knew what it was right away.  We knew it was going to arrive today.  On the box once again was a very nice thank you note from Ron at Fancy-Kitty.

The Picker is Here!
The picker came yesterday, and we are looking forward to getting it going.  The carder is going to be delivered tomorrow. Just a quick recap, we ordered a Big Tom carder and a Bench Picker from Fancy-Kitty.com. All I have to say about the picker is WOW!!! It is amazing!  I had seen pictures of it and knew that it was good workmanship but it is beautiful!  The corners are perfect, the top fits like a glove, the legs wer