Shalali Infante and Pint-Size Farm, located in New Mexico, breeds miniature jerseys, Nigerian dwarf goats, and American Guinea Hogs shipping animals all over the U.S.

We planned to put the cows back out on pasture (they’ve been restricted to the barn yard as we irrigated on Sunday, and we need to wait until the pasture dries out a little so they don’t tear it up), but the grass has not grown enough.  This heat is stunting growth.

I covered the passenger seat on the Milk Lorry with a feed sac.  I’ve been having Dante drive it as much as possible so that he can learn about handling a vehicle.  Well the seat is black and burns my legs every time I sit on it.  So, now it has a nice new white cover.

After milking, I folded the cow laundry on time (the towels we use to wash down the udders).  Usually, I wait several days, using the towels out of the laundry bin and putting the dirty ones on the floor until I get them folded.

I jarred the honey from last weekend.  We got over 1.5 gallons.  I also melted down and filtered the bee’s wax.  I need to take some to Pansy, so I can get some more udder butter.  She uses it in the salve she makes for me to use on the cows’ udders at milking.

I put back together the fridge in the barn, the one that died in the milk room.  It was cooling a little bit, and the freezer still worked.  I hope it will keep cool enough to keep the carrots from rotting out.  I also thought Dante could keep his goats’ milk in that freezer.  We’ll see how it goes.  It was like putting together a puzzle.  Both my father and I took it apart, so I had no memory of how it all came apart and therefore had more trouble putting it back together.  I had to manufacture a piece, as we must have lost it.  I had to be creative, but finally got all those #%^^ doors back on and sealing.  It’s turned on and hopefully will stay cold enough for the carrots and probably some lacto-fermented stuff.

Sweete milked in the afternoon.

We had left over lasagna and some cut up tomatoes (first from the garden) and some cucumbers that a shareholder brought.

Milk Stats: We milked 6.55 gallons; Sally gave 22.5 pounds or 2.71 gallons; Janie gave 19.9 pounds or 2.39 gallons; Annie gave 12 pounds or 1.44 gallons; We collected 24 eggs or 2 dz.

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