Monday, February 6, 2023
Natural silver - 200 yards
We have added lots of beautiful hand and mill-spun yarns to our Paca Shop. Because alpacas come in 22 natural colors, I have only enhanced some of our yarns so far with silk and bamboo. Our alpacas produced such a high quality of fleece last year; we are proud to offer this to you an amazing selection now. Many of our yarns are worsted weight, while some hand-spun are a little heavier but so beautiful. In yardage you'll find many in 150 or 200 skeins, but again, this may vary with han read more...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Jasmin didn't let me hold Circle Cliff's Finnegan SirPrize unless I tricked her and separated her little guy in the nursery without her. Sometimes you have to weigh the crias (babies) and give them medications and just handle them. Jasmin is so very loving and watchful of her little ones trickery is the only way. Currently, Jasmin will let her little guy run and play with his best friend, Circle Cliff's Neapolitan Sundae (Polly) and the two of them stir up their own read more...
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Saturday, November 19, 2022
Alpaca Dryer Balls too!
Mike and I have spent time this week doing some herd health (that's what we do here to help keep everyone healthy). We gave Finnegan SirPrize his three-month shot and Melvin a shot to help him with his dry lip condition that hasn't gone away. We trimmed Norah June's front toe nails and walked her around so she wouldn't feel "picked on" because nail trimming is not always fun. We also rubbed some "zinc lotion" on Praline Sundae and Cocoa Sundae's noses. They have bare spots there; today the read more...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Arlene holding day old Circle Cliff's Finnegan SirPrize
Arlene and Bob had a ranch visit scheduled weeks in advance. Coming from Arizona on their trip through Utah and some of the parks here. We love visitors. I was texting my two daughters early in the morning about very important things and I was late getting out there. I needed to clean up the "toilet" area. As I walked out there I saw my girls gathered around Odin (our livestock guardian dog) and a little wet bundle on the ground. Enter the world, little Circle Cliff's Finne read more...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2022
Sweet Caramel Sundae's future at the ranch didn't turn out as we had hoped. Her little cria was very large, and was not positioned correctly. For many, many reasons which I am choosing not to elaborate on, both Caramel Sundae and her daughter, Angel, are pronking (running) around on heavenly pastures and enjoying their happiest times together. When I get to heaven, I hope to see their big, brown eyes and get reunited with them both! Celebrating Caramel Sundae, she was fondly nam read more...
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Monday, June 13, 2022
Caramel Sundae surprising her new friend
Caramel Sundae's cria (baby alpaca) was due May 28th. My life has been on hold ever since then. I've canceled alpaca trainings, volunteer commitments, short trips, shopping, etc. I'm watching on "Ring" most other times so I can be there to help this first-time mother just in case she needs assistance. In the meantime, this beautiful girl is just as happy as can be, eating her grain, nibbling on her carrots, and bossing her friends around. She carefully kushes (gets on the gro read more...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2022
It was a great, but windy, day! Our girls and boys gave their all, and so did our wonderful family and volunteers. We were busy from 8am until around 4pm, with a 40 minute lunch break somewhere in there. With our 28 alpacas, and our dear friends Toni and Jim bringing their 12 alpacas here, we successfully had 40 alpacas safely shorn by around 3pm. What a day! We were in sync pretty much all of the day, with a few overlapping people being trained to cover each other if someone read more...
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Monday, April 11, 2022
Lora feeds fluffy Caramel Sundae and Norah June
Sometimes my husband and I joke about how constantly the wind blows in our little Wayne County, Utah. We say if it ever stops blowing, we'd actually fall over! Seriously, there are days and weeks that it seems the wind never stops. We have had a lot of wind lately. Because last week we had severe wind several days in a row, one of my former teachers, Lora, needed to postpone her visit to the ranch for a few days. On the day she and her family visited, it was "less wind read more...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Odin eats his "deserved" grain
There was absolutely no language barrier or pocket translator needed when it came to the language of alpacas meeting our French visitors. My French 101, taken in Mr. Johnson's eighth grade class, and later in college, didn't prepare me for speaking French fluently when our ranch visitors came straight from France. Thank heavens we had the alpacas, Odin, and chickens to help me. What translated easily were the smiles, love, kindnesses, alpacas spitting in the air, the girls jumping o read more...
Nathalie hand feeds Starlet
There is no language barrier with alpacas
Oliver and his son engage with Trixie Allie
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Friday, March 11, 2022
Welcome to Utah! Our weather changes from warm to COLD to warm and back to cold without notice. Last year we were taking off the coats we had on two of our alpacas, and this year we still have their coats on. Last year we were loading up alpaca "black gold" for our friends who have greenhouses, and this year we haven't even advertised it on Facebook. This year it's still pretty cold, and yet, we have blue, blue skies and clean air. We read more...
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