It seems like making Feta cheese and having "school" days with the kids is about all we can handle these days. Then I thought about that and realized we do a whole lot more besides.  We never have a "lazy" day by most standards. There's not a day that we don't have to do chores and that iclude manual labor in the barn.

Very different life than we had three years ago before we moved here. For one thing I didn't make cheese! Didn't own any livestock to care for, and when we wanted to be lazy the dog did too. Here the animals all demand attention still No day off!

I have used the Feta recipe from fiasco farms (link on my sidebar) becasue she uses 3 gallons of milk in her recipe, and I prefer to make alot. It takes all day, it might as well be alot at once. Sure is tasty. I made it with lipase this time, for a more flavorful, aromatic cheese. (more stinky) I put the cheese in jars with olive oil, garlic, rosemary and basil when it's been cut and cured for 48 hrs. Yum!

Some of you may remember our search for the perfect livestock guardian dog. May never find that! But...I did trade a bred Nubian doe for an Anotolian/G.Pyrenese cross today. I'll get the pup in the middle of October. Hopefully that will eventually solve the coyote problem. She'll be too tiny to help this winter, but hopefully by next kidding season she will at least look too big to bother with! I'll get her spayed, so she won't want to roam.

Well, the kids and I have alot on the agenda tomorrow, and we still need to read aloud Adam and His Kin, by Ruth Bechick before bed.

In the morning there will be fresh bread made with the whey from cheesemaking today, but not before two cups of the best coffee ever- Pumpkin Spice with goat's milk! yay! I'm so happy the pumpkin spice coffee is back in stock! It's the little things in life, the small comforts that I enjoy more than anything big or exciting. Guess I'm boring.