Tuesday, May 27, 2014

The Days of Future Cow

I have big plans, y'all. Big. I have this grand plan for our homestead and it involves a huge greenhouse (because the 8 month growing season in South Carolina obviously isn't long enough, duh), a cow, and homemade cheese. And yogurt. And butter. And sour cream.

I just can't get enough. Every time I go to the store and spend SO MUCH money on dairy, I long for a cow. Every time I run out of yogurt or see all the crap ingredients in store bought yogurt, I gaze dreamily off into space, waxing rhapsodic about the joys and benefits of having a cow. My cow. My very own cow.

I choose these times to blatantly ignore all the hard work and early mornings that go along with having a dairy cow. All the mud and poop and sweat and pre-dawn milkings fall by the wayside in those daydreams. It's me and my cow, getting real.

And I'm THIS close to convincing B to go along with this insane plan. We're talking about how to manage our pasture for a  future cow AND future goats (and maybe even future sheep, but that ones on the back burner).We're talking about electric fence and milking stands and bottle feeding baby cows. We're really talking about it...

Our own dairy cow.

Crazy.

I wanted to photoshop my face over hers...but I don't have photoshop,
 so you'll just have to use your imagination

2 comments:

  1. Dude, we could move 28 gallons of true milk a week here. With all of the magical goodness it produces you'd have milk, whey, yogurt, kefir, creme fraiche, quark, sour cream, cottage cheese, mozzarella, cream cheese and any other type cheese imaginable with the majority of them being raw forms. That's BEYOND titillating! ;) You're WAY further along in your goals to having a farm than I feel like we'll ever be. It always seems greener on the other side, man. But it seems the greenest on homesteads.
    Get. The. Cow.
    And best of luck to y'all on Bessie!

    Wisteria wreath craft day sometime?

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  2. Dude, we could move 28 gallons of true milk a week here. With all of the magical goodness it produces you'd have milk, whey, yogurt, kefir, creme fraiche, quark, sour cream, cottage cheese, mozzarella, cream cheese and any other type cheese imaginable with the majority of them being raw forms. That's BEYOND titillating! ;) You're WAY further along in your goals to having a farm than I feel like we'll ever be. It always seems greener on the other side, man. But it seems the greenest on homesteads.
    Get. The. Cow.
    And best of luck to y'all on Bessie!

    Wisteria wreath craft day sometime?

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