Life Among the Alpacas
Kasey Butcher SantanaNotes from my life caring for a small alpaca farm, plus the chickens, bees, elderly dog, and humans who live here and the things that make us curious.
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Vonnegut, Chickens, and The Odyssey
There’s this line from my fellow Hoosier, the great author Kurt Vonnegut, that I think of fairly regularly. He wrote:
So when we were drinking lemonade under an apple tree in the summer, say, and talking lazily about this and that, almos...
There's a Snake in My Coop
I am on the record as being pro-critter. They have as much right to this earth as I do. But, friends, the critters are wearing me out this summer.
If you’ll recall, in June there was a time when skunks lived under our porch. And there was...
Getting to the Eiffel Tower Together
I suppose this week’s newsletter falls into the category of Life Not Among the Alpacas.
My daughter arrived during the first summer of the pandemic. We lived 1,000 miles from our nearest relatives. We were, in short, alone, the three of u...
What Breed Are These Chicks?
I said that I was going to write about our trip this week, but I have been completely sidetracked by a chicken coop mystery, trying to figure out what kind of chickens we have. Our adult hens are a Red Star, a Black Star, and a White Easter...
A Tale of Two—No, Three—Skunks; Or How to Go on Vacation if You Have Farm Animals
We just got back from a family vacation to Paris and London, which was amazing, and I’ll write about it more next week. But preparations for the trip made me remember how, when our little alpaca farm was still just a dream, I lay awake one...
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Writer. Plant lady. Jail librarian turned alpaca farmer. Ph.D. in American literature with an elderly canine sidekick. I write about our animals, nature, empathy, mothering, and what makes me curious.
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