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 Finnegan SirPrize!
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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!
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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 ground) 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 needed a 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 windy" and w 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 on to 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 are enjoying the be read more...
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Sunday, March 6, 2022
Delicious Lemon Cream Cheese Cookies
******This recipe is originally by by Diana Rattray
The Spruce Eats
Prep time: 15 minutes. Cook: 10-12 minutes. Serving: about 36 cookies. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
These cookies are a tender and soft cookie, with a light citrus icing. The cream cheese gives these cookies a great flavor and texture, with a lemon zest, juice and extract. NOTE: I add a Young Living citrus oil in place of lemon extract.
Cookies: 2 C all-purpose flour. 1 tsp baking powder.
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Saturday, February 26, 2022
Diena's Chocolate Chip Cookies
I've been baking these chocolate chip cookies since 2003, when I got the recipe from my friend Brenda. For our son Kevin's wedding, I baked at least ten dozen of these and froze them for his rehearsal dinner. Trust me, they're really delicious. Don't skimp on ingredients: use real butter, real vanilla, and fresh eggs if you have them.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
1 C brown sugar. 1 C sugar. 1 C butter. 2 eggs. 1 tsp vanilla.
3 C flour. 1 tsp b read more...
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Sunday, January 23, 2022
Our boy, Django, went to visit Dr. Jake. He handled the ride so well. I was able to halter him with no problem, all by my self. I walked him into doctor's office and Dr. Jake and his helpers go the X-ray equipment out. Mike and I helped hold Django still, which he did stand so nicely.
The break in his leg is healing nicely, and Dr. Jake feels like if Django is restricted in his movement (play area) for 4-6 more weeks, he should be able to be "good as new." We are betting on that!
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