Busy Monday

1/08/07 - 2nd Day - After Lunch. We had a big weekend, our first with most everyone here who will be living here. It was great, but crowded. It was very breezy and cold so 20 of us met on the porch. The food for fellowship was great! We had smoked brisket, summer sausage, cheese, broccoli rice casserole, tater-tot casserole, corbread muffins. There was pineapple cake, and another sweet cake (which was good, but I don't know its name) for dessert.

Today we got up and went to town to get a few supplies. We got two more posts put in for the landing at the bottom door of the root cellar, and later today we will be putting up the landing walls. I processed the milk from this morning (putting it into the proper jars, skimming the milk, etc.) and brought up from the root cellar some soft farmer's cheese that I made yesterday. We are now in the process of killing a bunch of excess roosters which we will smoke and can for the root cellar tomorrow. If the Lord wills, tomorrow we will have the meat from a turkey and about 6 or so roosters to can in the pressure canner. I will also be starting a sharp aged cheese (to be aged 9 months in the root cellar) today from a couple of gallons of "excess" milk.

I am hoping that tomorrow we will get a full day of work on the root cellar entrance way. Money has been the main hindrance so far. It will feel great to get that project finished and to begin working full time on the slipformed stone walls of the milk shed.

Better go get back to work,

Michael Bunker