The bike is back out. Tom’s car is ca-put. He can’t even trash it until the title comes. Stinks. He has been riding with his new girlfriend, but on good days he may take his bike. Good thing it wasn’t last night. What a gully washer into this morning! Mudroom leaks everywhere! I’m glad that Jess helped me mow this last weekend because I don’t know the next time when it will be dry enough to do it. She had a lot of fun at ATF this year. Over 4,000 in the stadium she said. Some adults enjoyed it too and want more older people to go next year and not just as chaperones. I have been busy in the kitchen making soup. Tommy brought home broccoli and cauliflower last week so I had made the broccoli soup and today I am making cheesy cauliflower soup. I also made banana pudding with rum flavor added and sprinkled graham cracker then thin vanilla icing, then more graham cracker on top. FATTENING! But oh, so good!
I’m making cheese again today too. This time I am heating it up first. I usually don’t because my milk is a few days old when I make it and I thought that the bacteria was good enough to help set it. I’ve been having problems though. Maybe I milk too clean! So I’m heating it first. Some of the cheese I tried a while back I followed all the directions but when it came time to set up with rennet it didn’t. So I set it out covered on the counter overnight like making cottage cheese or ricotta and in the morning did that procedure. I ended up with soft cottage cheese consistency and put it in the fridge. I used it later on in a tossed salad. Really tasty! That is where I am getting all the whey for the cream soups I’m making. I sometimes put it in the freezer to break out later. You can only have so much dairy! I have been car-less more often as the van needs inspected. I can use it as long as it doesn’t rain though. The tires are pretty smooth. It sure makes it easy to get a lot done around here. When I need the car I have to take Tom back and forth to work so it isn’t often. When Ken was going that way to work it was helpful.