Summer homesteading has been progressing right nicely, I mean, I even made raw cow's milk cheese today, so I'm feeling incredibly domestic. Okay, I am feeling just like me, but apparently it's like popular or something do to trad-domestic things and influence others about it. Or something.
Hmm. That might have been a touch spicy of me, but it is spicy fly season round these parts. I know this because my hound dog is spending half of her day eating spicy flies like a post cannabis imbiber enjoying some flaming hot Cheetos dipped in a mango milkshake. That dog kills me.
I also was stung by one of those spicy flies, AKA yellow jackets and bald face hornets, a couple days ago, so this diatribe could contain the remnants of that venom...
Anyway, yesterday, I raked the RV site, mowed and weed-eated the yard, and got around to a chore that has been on my to do list all summer, staining the deck and ramp railing.
I got the job almost all done, but the flower bed side of the railing is going to have to be done early Saturday morning. I threw in the brush after being bitten, yes bitten, on the side of the head by a yellow jacket. Plus, the sting of the sting I got earlier this week is still fresh in my memory, and I was covered in the spicy flies while I was staining the flower bed side of the railing, so I hit the pause button on that project until the day after tomorrow.
Another thing that I got done was some cheese making. I need some whey for ginger beer and vegetable lacto-fermentation reasons, and does anyone ever need a reason for cheese? What I didn't have was hours of time, so I whipped up some easy farmer's cheese. It reminds me of mozzarella and feta, I love it on salad!
I'm sure I will post about the ginger beer and fermented veg, but another thing that I made recently I will show here, that's right, some frozen custard!
All that's in this glorious conglomeration is raw cream, raw milk, egg yolks from our hens, and organic maple syrup. Oh, and I mixed in some organic cocoa powder because I was feeling like some chocolate. IT WAS DIVINE!
While my cheese was aloft in it's muslin draining hammock, I walked out to the new yurt site with the hubs. After the thing sitting in our equipment shed for two years, I am super excited to get the yurt up! The hubs punched a road through the trees, cleared the site, and took over the footings and floor beams. It is looking yurt-i-ful!
We stopped by the barn on the way back over from the yurt and collected the eggs. Okay, I also gave the beasties a bunch of watermelon rind and cantaloupe guts. Harold the rooster was most appreciative.
And now, now I am going to go become a potato for the rest of the night, well, I will after I water our cucumbers. Tomorrow the bakery beckons...
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