Pictures Finally

Well it has taken just about all bloody day to do it but I did finally got those lovely pictures on my website and I am just plain tuckered out. But I think they came out OK. Truthfully at this point I really don't care! But they are done!!! Oh you will have to use my button to my website to see them. Because I was having trouble trying to hyper-link them. So they are there anyways.

Fiber Pictures

I have spent a lot of time working on the pictures I need for the website on the fiber I sell. I first was having problems with the program and then the download. I had spent about a day and a half trying to get it to work. Well I think I finally got it figured out but we shall see. I had a call from a friend of mine today. She was telling me about a craft fair that is coming up this weekend in North Loup and I told her I wanted to do it with her. But I forgot that this is my weekend to work at my other job, the gas station. Bummer!! I was really looking forward to doing this show to get my fiber out there and my yarn too. It is probably for the best this way it gives me more time to do more spinning. I have to spin like a mad woman to get a lot of yarn done. But I think it will be worth it in the long run. I am going to post the picture on here as well as on the website for all of you to see what I have to sell.

Milking Bessy

Well it has been a week now since Bessy has been using the new milk bucket and she is such a happy cow now! She is so happy that it does not take for ever to milk her anymore and so is our son is happy too. He still thinks it is the greatest thing to have that milker now. He has a much better frame of mind about having to milk Bessy. Don't get me wrong he liked it, it's just when you are over 6 feet tall and having to squat for 20 to 40 minutes to milk a cow it gets kind of hard on your legs and back. And since I had broke my ankle this summer I still can't squat like I should. So when my husband gets called away on business it is left to our son to do it. It can be rather difficult at times but not anymore. That milker is a lifesaver for us all here at the farm. We are happy farmers now!!

Well It has been a couple of days since I have written anything. So here it is. My husband came home Wednesday from being out of town since Monday morning and we have been busy trying to play catchup on the chores around here. We also, this morning, had to go to Broken Bow and help the owner of Broken Bow Pack with moving some pressure tanks around. Also we picked up some of the pork meat that we sent there to be processed. When we got home and put the meat in the freezer we decided to try some of the sausage for lunch and OH MY GOODNESS is it good. It is some of the best I have ever had!!! When we were talking to Gary he was telling us that he has not been in business that long, only 5 years and he is just building it up. So those of you that live near Broken Bow and need any live stock slaughtered send to Broken Bow Pack .They do a really nice job and they are willing to work with you on how you want your meat.

Oh also an update on the milking bucket. My husband and son got to use it Thursday morning. I tell you that is is a breeze now to milk Bessy and she likes it too. Because it does not take so long to milk her now. So we have happy milkers and a happy cow!!!

The Sucessful Cheese

Here are some of the cheese I have made todate.

Super Busy

Well I have been so busy the last 5 days! I don't know if Im coming or going. It all started Last Friday when I got a call from my husband and told me he was leaving Litchfield and heading to the shop, and if I and the rest of our family was ready to meet him at the shop in Broken Bow. Because we had to get more pots to make this dish called Barbacoa. which is a whole lamb cooked on one pot. This is a dish that is only fixed on special occasions like wedding, baby showers, etc. . So we got that pots and the rest of the ingerdients to fix two lambs for a friend for her sisters baby shower on Sunday afternoon. Mind you it was my weekend to work at the other job, and we had these two lambs to fix for Sunday. Saturday night my husband ended up staying up all night to fix the lamb. And I had to work on Sunday. So I didn't get a chance to see the end result and when our friends came to pick it up and they asked my husband if I could make some mozzeralla cheese for them and of course he said sure she can. Mind you I have never made it before! but not a problem and my husband asked our friends how many pounds they wanted? They said the wanted 3 pounds and they wanted for Friday and of course my husband said no problem that she would have ready on that day. On top of every thing else we also had to take one of our bulls and 4 hogs to the 2 different pack and process places. One is in Litchfield and we left there the bull and 3 hogs and the other hog to Broken Bow Pack. Mind you this is on top of all our daily chores and me having to work outside the house this weekend.We also had to take a lamb to B.B. pack as well yesterday.

Well I did make some mozzeralla cheese for the first time today and it was a great success out of 1 gallon of milk I yield about 12 to 14 ounces of cheese. So I have just finished making the second batch and am in the process in making the 3rd batch as I write this. I am really excited about making the cheese and I have fun making it too!!!

We also got our new milking bucket today and our son was so happy to see it today beaucse he wont have to milk by hand anymore. He told me he felt like it as christmas when we got the box this morning. I tell you it was the most beautiful thing we have seen and knowing that the guys wont have to milk by hand any more sounds good too!!

Acknowlegement due

Yesterday I did a big mistake in regards to tink-n-frog. It was not inteneded to be the way it was interperted. I didn't know if she wanted to be refered to as my sister or not! I am truely sorry for not refering to her as my sister. Yes she is my younger more knowledgeable sister . When it comes to computers. I am still learning. I have only been on the computers for 2 years so this stuff is still very unknown to me. I am proud of my sister and all she can do on these crazy machines. I only hope she can truely for give me for not calling her my sister. I think she did a beautiful job on my blog page and I truely appreciate what she did and the late hours she was up .

New at Blogging

Well I'm new at this blog thing . I'm not sure how this all works. But I'm willing to try it. As you may have figured out my husband and I have a small farm in Nebraska it has been a life long dream of ours. We don't have much acreage but we make up for it in ideas. We are trying something new. We started a website about our farm and what we raise and can offer people out there in the world. My husband and I both work out side the farm and when we get home we do our daily chores. We have a 16 yr old son and he helps out a ton in the summer and when his Dad gets called away on business. Our goal with the website is to drum up enough business so I can stay at the farm and do most of the work there, instead of going to my other job. As I say, it is new and if anyone would like to check it out we really would like to hear from you. You can fill out the contact page on the website or leave a comment on this blog. We are still working out the kinks in it so please be patient with us.

A change in subject in regards to the cheese making I mailed my first cheese today! I hope Tink-n-Frog you like it? I am so excited about it and I also got a call about making carnitas today as well. For those of you who don't know what carnitas are it is fried pork. It is usually the whole pig that is fried. It is really good but very very rich. Well off to go do chores!!!

Making Cheese

Well today I have a day off from my job. I work outside the home as well as on the farm. This last weekend we had some people show up at our farm and bought one of our fat lambs for eating. Then my husband told them that I make Que so Fresco (fresh cheese). And they placed an order for 2 - 4 inch wheels. So today I made cheese from the milk from our cow, Bessy. She is really cute and she loves to give you kisses with her really big tongue. My husband and our 16 year old son milk her twice a day and we yield about 4 gallons a day from her. It is too much for us to drink so my father and I thought we could make cheese with the milk that we or the bucket calves don't use. Dad bought a starter cheese making kit. Then my husband got excited about the idea and he showed me how to make the fresh cheese. So now I am working on my technique on making a better cheese. Well it is about time for us to milk Bessy and finish the rest of the chores for the day, get dinner and then maybe have time to watch a little TV.

This is the first post for the Yanez Farms blog.