• Sunday, March 16, 2008 - Disbudding kids, gardening, and cheese making
I have 8 minute to blog before I have to put my drained cheese curds into the cheese press for the night. It has been a busy afternoon. We started with disbudding Mary and Martha. We are told it is easier and works better to disbud between 2 and 8 days of age. I have to say that they were real troopers. They complained the most about the "haircut." My daughter took step by step photos and I'll make a post with them so you can see the whole process.
There is rain coming so we felt some urgency to get the flower beds and herb garden in better shape. My strawberry bushes are looking very nice with lots of green strawberries forming. The bushes I just put in are looking a little straggly. I'm hoping the rain does them some good and they start getting some more leaves and flowers. I did get my lettuce, spinach, cilantro and parsley planted and hubby weeded the volunteer dill from among the garlic so the garlic would have a fighting chance. I still have more to plant but that is all that time allowed before evening barn chores.
After barn chores, I looked into my fridge to find that I had an abundance of milk. (I have a jersey cow as well as the diary goats.) I decided to try my hand at Muenster again. Last time it did not work well, but tonight it seems to be going better. I'm following the directions exactly and hoping to have a nice cheese to try out by Easter. I haven't taken any photos tonight, but I did take photos of a mozzarella cheese making session a while back . I have that photo tutorial almost complete. So my 8 minutes is just about up and I have curds calling out to be tucked into bed in the cheese press. Good night!
Blessings,
Mrs. P |
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