Making More Cheese

Monday, September 18, 2023
Hello friends,
              I sure am enjoying the cool nights and warm days.  It feels like, well, fall!  There are leaves that are turning and dropping, but I think they are conserving moisture and not just responding to lack of daylight.  We had a dramatic front pass through on Saturday, dumping a quarter inch of rain in about 10 minutes, and then it went on its way.  We were just finishing chores and breeding a cow, but we had to take it inside!  I am thankful for a little rain, but we need more!
              We are making more cheese now that we have more milk.  After several months, and maybe even years, of selling a little more cheese than we were making, it has been getting a little sparse in the cheese cave aging rooms.  Finally, we are able to make more cheeses and put them down to age for at least 2 months.  Stephen has been coming down the first couple of days of the week to help out and today was a cheesemaking day.  We also made yogurt and cleaned out the brine tank and readied it to refill it with fresh salt brine.  Then chores.  I will sleep well tonight!…..