Thane's Neck Farm

We woke this morning to over 8 inches of snow and it was still snowing! This is North Carolina we don't get storms like this. The kids a...

Well, first off, our rabbit made it through the night! She is tucked in the far corner of the hutch but her ears are up and she seems alert....

Even though I call them "chores" I don't really feel that way about feeding and caring for the animals. I enjoy my time in the...

This picture is overlooking the female alpaca pasture out to the new home of the male alpacas. It was taken from the deck of the house. An...

Wow! After two weeks of cold wet rain and then freezing temperatures we awoke this morning to a beautiful day outside. When I went to do ch...

It is hard to believe that this is the second New Year's Day we have spent here on the farm! Boy, doesn't time fly by... Our first g...

What a day... so many things to write about today. It started out before I even left the house this morning. I was standing in the kitchen g...

Finally, Riona (our Irish Dexter first freshener cow) delivered us a bull calf today... only eight days overdue! I noticed her off by herse...

I noticed this morning while doing chores that end of our 6' woven wire fence had gotten mangled a bit. After feeding I walked out into ...

The weather was warm here today and I took advantage of that and worked outside most of the day. I got my firewood cut, brought hay up to t...

Today Neil got a chance to build the hay feeder for the alpaca girls. I have been feeding them hay on the ground which isn't good for s...

Well, after a very hot week where I didn't even want to step outside I managed to get a second coat of paint on the front of the barn to...

Well, I am very tired tonight so I am only going to post that I got the front of the barn painted today! It looks great but it does need a ...

I have been collecting tomatos out of my garden for a few days now. They have done OK for my first year here... they have given us plenty to...

Since Neil works hard all week at his job I try not to work him all weekend around the farm too. We try to work one day and relax the other ...

Neil and I were woken up early this morning by Berk barking non-stop. I lifted my head to look out the window at him to see what direction ...

We didn't do much for the 4th of July this year. Seven more of our alpacas are due to arrive around July 15th from California and South ...

Spent the day around the farm just doing a little of this and a lot of that. Mowed a bit of the lawn, got a bunch of stuff moved around to t...

What a day... I am soooo tired tonight! Our day started with loading the trailer with trash for the dump. This was not just 4-5 bags of hous...

There was frost on the car when I woke up this morning. It didn't last long and it was a beautiful cool day to be outside working today....