Orient Lodge

Baby alpacas are expected at Alpaca Hill Farm in Seymour, CT in a couple of weeks.

Alpaca Hill Farm has a small shop on their farm which we stopped at just before Christmas last year. We had a great discussion with the owners and they mentioned that they had some alpacas that were do sometime in the spring and we might want to stop by in May to see some baby alpacas.

Well, as Fiona and I were out doing errands today, we drove past the farm, and I thought, let’s stop by, see if anyone is there, and if so, if there are any new alpacas. It was a beautiful spring day, and Eileen Warner was sitting on the deck. She told us that the alpacas are due in about two weeks, so they are planning on having an open house, hopefully sometime around mid June.

As we were chatting, Tom Warner showed up with three recently shorn male alpacas in his trailer. It is striking how small a newly shorn alpaca looks. Tom and Eileen led them into the field as Fiona and I watched and patted the herd dog. The new alpacas got to know their new surroundings as they glanced warily at the dog, curiously at the ducks, and even more curiously at the alpacas they will be living with.

We look forward to a chance to see some baby alpacas in the next month or two.

Pinay Mommy Online is looking to build out a 100 EntreCard drop list. It looks like an interesting project to build links back to her blog, as well as provide links to other blogs and find a set of blogs worth reading and dropping EntreCards on.

She says that what she is specifically looking for is “mommy bloggers, digital scrappers, money making blogs and blogs that talks about page rank and SEO”. While I read a fair amount of mommy blogs, I’m a daddy blogger. I do talk about page rank, SEO, and even making money from time to time, but I suspect I may not be her target demographic.

Nonetheless, I’m going to highlight her project, and if she, or any of her readers chose to read me regularly, that would be nice. Random Thoughts expands on this and talks about the three criteria to make this successful, an EntreCard account, a Technorati account and an RSS feed.

The idea is that you should drop cards on people’s EntreCard accounts, add them as a Technorati favorite and then subscribe to their RSS feed with your favorite feed reader.

So, my EntreCard account is here. If you use EntreCard, please drop a card on my widget on the right, add me to your favorites and if you’re interested, set up an advertisement. I generally approve most advertisements, but if the ad wouldn’t look good on my site, I might end up not approving it.

My Technorati account can be found here. It points to Orient Lodge, Twitter and a few other sites that I have. Adding me as a favorite on Technorati would be greatly appreciated.

For my RSS feed, the best feed to use is probably this. Adding it to any feed reader you have would also be greatly appreciated.

I will check out various blog that are participating, drop some cards, add some favorites, and perhaps even get into some interesting discussions.

I know that some people don’t like that I use Drupal here for my blog, which has a completely separate comment system from the big ones, and you have to register here. Yet, registering and adding a comment would be appreciated, or sending me a note at aldon dot hynes at orient dash lodge dot com would also nice.

Finally, if you join, add a link back to my blog, as well as to Pinay Mommy Online and Random Thoughts. I hope a bunch of EntreCarders participate.

Update:
Here is a list of participants: