Tag Archives: Farm Life

Frozen Feta

Posted on January 23, 2017 by The Goat Cheese Lady

I refer to myself as an experiential learner. It’s just unfortunate this was the experience (in a nutshell): Our extra refrigerator is in my husband’s woodworking shop.  Over the summer, the milk jars took over the house refrigerator so I … Continue reading →

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Remember Chester?

Posted on March 10, 2016 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Remember Chester?  Our Thanksgiving Turkey?  Well, he had a stay of execution.  Mostly because he wasn’t from the grocery store and a certain upper echelon patriarchal family member requested a turkey injected with butter and wrapped in cellophane be prepared for … Continue reading →

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Thanksgiving Dinner, Anyone?

Posted on November 26, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Meet Chester. But don’t get too attached.  He will be going to Thanksgiving Camp next week. We’ve raised our own meat before, but never in the form of a turkey.  Or 3 to be more specific.  There’s a first for everything, … Continue reading →

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Milking in the (cold) wind

Posted on November 19, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Before I went out to milk tonight, in the dark with gale force winds that sounded like they were kicking up a tornado of sorts, I warned my boys that if I wasn’t back inside within 30 minutes to start … Continue reading →

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Prednisone

Posted on October 20, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Last March, (when I count it out on my fingers, it makes 8 months ago), I was diagnosed, for the 7th time in my life, with Minimal Change Disease.  Minimal Change Disesase is a non-life threatening kidney disease that recurs … Continue reading →

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Goats For Sale!

Posted on September 22, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Six of this year’s precious bucklings-turned-wethers (castrated goat) spent the summer at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo!  Did you see them?  They were in My Big Back Yard, an exhibit with chickens, goats, bees, an occasional come-and-pet-me-I’m-a-tarantula! and a gigantic leaky … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Gluten, Eggs and Health!

Posted on August 1, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Around this time last year, I embarked on a health changing, energy lifting, life altering diet and supplement routine to combat the extreme fatigue that was robbing me of one month per year. I had figured out that for at … Continue reading →

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My, What Nice Forearms You Have.

Posted on May 4, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

A few nights ago, in a dream, a man was hitting on me.  Granted, I’m happily married, but that had no relevance when it was a particular body part that most attracted him.  You know how when you have a … Continue reading →

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Babies and Milk and Cheese Everywhere!

Posted on April 30, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

Spring on the farm is the beginning of life after the rest and revitalization that is winter.  In March, we bought a dozen new baby chicks to become our new egg laying flock and 12 goat kids were born…8 bucklings, 4 doelings, all healthy … Continue reading →

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Now That’s Cooking With Gas

Posted on April 27, 2015 by The Goat Cheese Lady

For all of the cooking years of my life, I have cooked on an electric stove and have become accustomed to both the curly cue and the flat top ranges. In my years of teaching cheesemaking however, any of my … Continue reading →

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