The lady I'm getting my cow from gave me a couple of quarts of fresh that a.m. milk from a Dexter cow..OH MY GOODNESS!! **sigh of contentment** I can't wait for Rosie to calve next spring so she can share with me! I really want the cream for butter, nothing like fresh unsalted butter for cooking & baking..or on hot sourdough bread w/my own honey! :-D Jody
Oh Jody, I am sighing now......like I have said, I yearn for that fresh cow's milk.....I kid you not. I think that once a person has had that taste, especially when the cow goes on the fresh new grasses of spring, and the like milk, there is not a taste in this world that can compare to that fresh milk, chilled the moment it is drawn through the teats of the cow. The more and more I think of it....seriously, the more and more I know that I am going to have to get a milker. I would want a Jersey, just like our old Candy girl.....she was a sweet and beautiful gal. The Jersey has an extremely high butterfat content and I recall clearly all the products that we made from her cream.....oh again....that takes me to a beautiful place in time, so many, many years ago...
My next-in-age-down (2 years my junior) Sister, her Husband, her three (then) children (not the same Sister that we abode with here now) all lived together in a beautiful mansion-type house, on a mountainside in a place called Deroche. We lived with them for the summer and well into the wintertime, when we moved elsewhere, closer to the places where my Husband and I worked. The 2 hours travelling to work each day was a hardship that we could no longer bear. This is where we shared the Candy girl with my Sister, it was her cow. It was a place of serenity and beauty and those early morning hours, sitting with Candy, helping relieve her of the burden of the milk in her udder, was a beautiful space in time....nothing can compare to that...not even my bees. Oh rats, I am ramblin' and I apologize for heading off topic, I truly do (but then...... :roll: ;) :) :), am I really sorry, :evil:). Have the most beautiful and wonderful of these days, love our life we all live and share. Cindi
Jody, when your Rosie calves, could I come down and get you to give me some of her milk, hee, hee........I would move heaven and earth to get some of that suff, hee, hee.....