I failed at making the lasagne last night. When I was checking the ingredients I discovered that I had run out of chedder cheese for the top. Can you believe it! The cheese in the fridge was an empty packet with only a sliver in it. WHO does stuff like that! Even my fresh squeaky cheese is all gone. An empty bowl. I was raided!
My home made hard cheese will not start coming out to be eaten for 60 days and we cannot wait that long for lasagne. So I shall have to capitulate and go shopping in the Matriarchs refrigerator today. Maybe in the mean time you can zoom over to see Mandy’s Lasagne at The Complete Cookbook. It does look good.
I am trying to put together a compilation of images to visually explain the milking process for you. It is taking a wee while to get the right pictures because I cannot milk and use the camera at the same time so I have had to call in John and his teenage son. Maybe I should draw storyboards for my camera men. This is a shot The Tall Teenager took yesterday afternoon. 
Daisy did not like him being in there at all.
I made the sugar cookies yesterday for the base of the cheese cake! (then hid them) I can see why the pioneer women only made things like this for special occassions. Getting all my ducks in a row to make a cheesecake is time consuming. Each individual ingredient has to be made separately. I will combine them all this morning and bake the cheesecake. It will be its own special occassion.
Then we will focus on the lasagne. Everyone is getting hungry waiting for me!
Bobby Blanc joined Mama’s Day Care yesterday morning for a half day.
It is hard being the new guy. 
Everyone stares. 
Then they go off and play together with their own friends. 
And you have to hang out kicking stones, all alone, looking like you enjoy it. 
But then Minty finds your door. “Did miss c give you any food? Did you bring your lunch? Can I have it!? Is it in here? Is this where you sleep? Did you forget your lunch? Where is your bottle? Is it like mine? Can you open this barn door. Your Mum can. Shall we call her? Is she at work today?
Is your bottle like mine. Mine is white. Is yours white? Do you know white? Where is it? Can I have some too? Oh, don’t listen to them they are mean. They never play with me either. Kick them on the bottom. That is what I do. 
Go on!. Get out your big fat meanies! Shoo or I will tell Mama on you! See I got rid of them. I am clever. Come on then.
Come with me. You can share my lunch. If we stand at the little gate and stare at the kitchen door and bleat for a while miss c will bring it. Can you bleat like me? Well, just follow me then. She always gives in. You just have to be perses.. psersis.. presisty.. You just have to do it lots! Man you are pretty big for a little fella. Are you sure you are only two weeks old?”
(high pitched little lambie voice fades as they walk away together)
Good morning. You all have a great day. We have a chance of rain again today, the clouds are low and look dark from my window. So the hay making has to wait until it clears. A good day to make cheesecake!
celi
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59 responses to “Bobby Blanc goes to Day Care”
Awww, Bobby’s The Awkward Kid on the playground! It’ll get better, little guy!
Have a great day, C! We’re harvesting garlic at our place…
YUM!! I look forward to seeing it! c
Fantastic post and pics as always. I was relieved re your lasagne story because I was beginning to think you were perfect – hehe!
Here is the link to the coconut oil story
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ZZOR-Qd3QSg
Thank you for the link, i will watch it in town as we do not have enough internet power to do youtube, I am interested to see what they say.. c
Aah the little boy Bobby Blanc. I’m sure he will fit in with everybody in no time at all.
Thank you for the lovely mention C! Hope everybody enjoys the lasagne as much as I did.
Have a super week ahead.
🙂 Mandy xo
Have a lovely evening Mandy and thank you.. c
Too cute!!! That’s exactly what she is saying :-D.
I bet she and Blossom would have a mile a minute conversation! Though Blossom looks quieter.. c
I heart Minty!
Minty hearts you too and has quietly mentioned that she would like a turtle for her birthday. Evidently lambs have birthdays once a month.. who knew! c
Morning Celi, I have a friend who can’t eat cheese so she makes a lasagne using a breadcrumb topping with lots of garlic, parsley and herbs, a back up idea for you for next time?
What A fabulous idea.
this does sound like a good idea and i am going to make it today just like that. you guys are lifesavers! c
I’m curious, do you just keep cows for milk or do you eat some of them as well? I would love to have this lifestyle and it’s good you escaped while you are still young enough to enjoy it 🙂
The steers are grown for meat. Daisy is kept for milk. So.. yup we do both.. c
Good Morning Celi, Love the addition of Bobby Blanc – I am sure all the others will come around soon enough and count him in as one of their own 🙂 And send some of that rain our way! 🙂
It blew away, like almost every other rainstorm lately. Though we have had over two inches this month which is more than an awful lot of farmers around here.. take care, love your new garden by the way! c
Minty and Bobby Blanc look sweet together. I second the breadcrumb and herb topping on the lasagne – it is a delish alternative 🙂 Laura
excellent, i have hauled some of the older home made bread out and will being its process into breadcrumbs, fresh breadcrumbs are nice too! c
A lovely chatty post. You’ve made me hungry – I forgot to eat breakfast, so had it for lunch instead and it wasn’t enough!
Oh I know that feeling. I usually eat my breakfats at 11 and my lunch at 2, and then wonder why i cannot bear the thought of making dinner!! c
Bobby blanc and Minty……..what a team; Miss Minty looks like she’ll lead himself astray.
For the lasagne you can top with a basic Polonaise…..breadcrumbs and a generous amount of butter.
what a stunning idea, I shall do exactly that! thank you.. c
Adorable – but I´m sure he´ll soon have his own “gang” to play with. And yes, 60 days is way too long to wait for lasagne. It´s good to have a nearby Matriarch with a well stocked fridge!
She shops! I cheat! Ah well.. morning tanya.. c
schoolyards are a tough fact of life. hope you get rain. we sure aren’t getting any! can’t wait to see the cheesecake.
CUTE! Minty’s comments seem like she could actually be making them hahaha…… and so true, just like I could imagine too!
Have a lovely day and don’t work too hard.
Aw! We may be witnessing the beginning of a beautiful friendship — or the very start of a crime spree that will have farms talking for decades to come. Time will tell…
It does look like rain up here, too. I certainly hope so and that you get a good soaking. Good luck with the lasagna. No matter how you finish it off, I’m sure it will be just fine. Have a great day, Celi.