August 25, 2015
Hello hello, from Milton Creamery! We’ve been having beautiful weather these days, feeling like fall, crisp and cool. Does it mean an early winter? I won’t borrow trouble on that one, just enjoy what we have now. The beginning of the summer was so wet, the last 4 weeks we haven’t had much rain and the yards are turning brown. The crops are doing well as a whole in this area. Some of the early corn is drying right down.
Here at Milton Creamery production is at its low point. This week they will only have 8 batches of cheese to make. Some of the fellows are glad about that; it gives them more time off to do other things. It is nice to have a break. The curd orders have not slacked off, they are at an all-time high this summer. We can’t make enough in one batch, we need to split it up. We have stores that order every week that we ship curds to, some weeks up to 15 plus boxes. The boys start an hour earlier so it isn’t as late till we finish. There are lots of containers to wash those days making some of them groan a bit on curd day.
Orders continue to keep coming in for which we are grateful. Dwayne fills the wholesale orders and delivers on Fridays. Stacy packs the shipping orders and gets them ready for FedEx. Renee and Mabel Ann cut and package cheese, box up 5# loaves. Emma labels curd bags, labels cheese, cuts labels, just little odd jobs that need doing. Galen, Jeff, Stephen, Joseph & Tony are the cheese makers, Jay Alan hauls milk and does maintenance. Lester takes care of the retail and answers the phone. And I walk around here bossing everyone, keeping them on their toes, some days probably being a pain L and then again some days I actually get things done! J And we’ll leave it at that, don’t ask anyone else about it!