A beautiful day in Southeast Iowa. After some welcome rain last weekend, things have greened up again and more rain the other night cooled it off.
Galen and Cody started making cheese at 4:30 this morning so they could finish earlier. They made a batch of Prairie Rose, the wheel cheese we only make in summer when the cows are on pasture. The first of the season is now ready to use. It’s a Swiss- style.
Jr and Rufus are working on equipment, replacing gaskets, etc. Jr hopes he doesn’t have to work half the night or tomorrow. He’d like to go to a sale tomorrow to watch hog equipment. He has some feeder pigs he’s fattening for Nimen Ranch. He feeds them whey from the creamery, it gives him a change of scenery to feed them every day and bed them, etc.
Rufus and I got home around 4:30 last eve. We were in Brookfield, WI on Saturday to do a demo at the Metro Market from 10 – 4. From there we headed toward Washington, DC. Slept in Indiana Saturday night, got into DC after 7 PM Sunday evening. It took us 1 ½ hrs. to go the last 45 miles. We’re not used to dealing with so much traffic. Coming from a county that boasts of no traffic lights in the whole county, that was quite a switch.
We attended the Fancy Food Show at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. It started on Sunday, so our broker from Boston, Linda Luke took care of our booth that day. We were there Monday and Tuesday. There was so much food, so many things to see, and people - - - - thousands of people. Very interesting and good for our “Cheese” to be there. We sampled the Prairie Breeze and introduced the Flory’s Truckle, a cloth-bound cheddar. We received a good response. I suppose some people were prejudiced, but we were told a few times we had the best cheese there. How anyone could have tasted all of them is beyond me.