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Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Katy

Katy — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:39:40 +0000

The field trip looks like a lot of fun…but I’m not sure about the milking a cow part. Bethany and Abby have grown so much! They will be great big sisters!

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by William D

William D — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:35:59 +0000

I’ve often thought about opening up my farm for visits.

I’ve got an old cow, but she cannot produce milk. I’ve got 19 others that do, but we use machines which are faster.

Glad you had on fun on your visit.

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Mrs. Mari

Mrs. Mari — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:33:18 +0000

What a fun trip! My brother-in-law’s family had a dairy farm in NM and when we’d visit them we’d always go out to the farm to visit his family, and on Sundays we’d have dinner with them after church. I loved being with the animals.

What fun for the girls. I hope Melaine is doing well, we keep her in our prayers.

Blessings, Mrs. Mari

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Joyanne S

Joyanne S — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:29:53 +0000

Good on you Sarah for having a go at hand-milking! I love hand-milking but our cow isn’t a very easy one to milk, so we now milk her with a small machine.
And I love seeing posts of farming in other countries! Always interesting seeing both the similarities and the differences to what we see in NZ!

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Kathryn

Kathryn — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:49:03 +0000

I bet the girls had a good time and enjoyed the animals. My family farmed cattle, and my chidren’s grandparents have a dairy, and they just love bottle-feeding the calves. While I love the animals, I cannot stand the smell of dairys. Oh Goodness, they smell worse than a feedlot!

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Victoria S.

Victoria S. — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:19:34 +0000

Milking a cow is not an experience I’ve ever had. =) Your “all girls” field trip looks like a lot of fun and a very special time for Abbey and Bethany with her aunts and grandma.

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:05:05 +0000

Ah…sweet..my Bethany is always “Bethie,” to us–didn’t know any other’s who were Bethie’s!

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Johnna B

Johnna B — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:12:37 +0000

Milk from a glass container is much colder. I really like it when I can find it. A little expensive though.

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by akibare

akibare — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:02:29 +0000

My town in Illinois has a regional dairy that provides the supermarket with glass bottle milk, and I do enjoy it – I never had a milk truck deliver to my house, but I fondly remember having milk delivered to my door in individual serving bottles (with paper and cellophane caps) in Tokyo, in the 1980s. Every morning we put out yesterday’s bottles, and were delivered new full ones, in the same place we had the newspaper delivered.

I’d not thought of that in years! Never milked a cow myself though. I’ve seen them up close through a fence but that’s the extent of it.

Surely Abby and Bethany were amazed at the size!

Comment on Mooooo … Mmmm Milk by Angie G

Angie G — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:47:42 +0000

We have recently started purchasing raw milk from a farmer down the street. I take the children every week to pick it up in gallon size glass jars. It’s just a great experience!

It is always nice to remember those that work hard to give us good quality food.

Thanks for sharing.