I have been so quiet.. I know.. I've also been so very very busy. I have been making cheese like crazy this year. Nearly 2-3 batches a week. I'm also the primary one managing the dairy herd. This includes milking and feeding as well as care of the bottle calves. My computer has sat on it's stand off forever. I'm trying to dust the poor thing off and do some writing and planning and.. and.. just more things to add to my to do, I guess.
Hopefully, before too long I'll have my 25 gallon cheese vat going. It's a steam kettle we're converting to a water jacket cheese vat, which is surprisingly easy but has a few costs (not extreme) and some planning that has to be really figured out. Finally, the biggest problem is heat in my cheese house. Cheese likes to be warm when it presses for example and it's easier to hold temperatures if I'm not battling the cold. It's posing a bit of an issue so I just keep plunking out 6 gallon batches of cheese.
So, I do still exist...
