P.S.

I can't believe I forgot.
Have you met our saintly friend?

He keeps a weather eye on things round here. Much thanks to the family for sending him along. =)

Oy Vey!

And we thought things were going to get easier... No, making and selling cheese is full-time job. But at least we're no longer dependent of contractors and other construction types. (Nothing against them, really.) But the space is finally ours, and we've even made it through a few weekends at the Farmers' Market (pictures of that to come).

In the meantime...

The milking parlor:

The Cheese Room:

THE CHEESE:

The Big Day

Ladies and gentleman, we will be selling our first batch of fresh goat cheese at the Matthews Farmer's Market... tomorrow! If you have been following this blog and have been looking forward to the chance to finally get your hands on some fresh goat cheese, please come see us. It's going to be a big day for Bosky Acres.

Today Is A Day That Will Go Down In History

At least for us it will. For today is THE DAY that Bosky Acres Inc. has received it's dairy license. Yes, we are legit. And we passed inspection with a perfect score. You know what that means right? That means CHEESE. Next Saturday, people. Be there.

Getting that piece of paper was such an insane process, up until the last few moments. It took months and months of planning, weeks and weeks of working, nights and nights when we were up past our bedtimes working. But oh, the cheese... it called to us. And now we can start making it and (most significantly) selling it.
We'd party, but everyone is just too tired at the moment. Mostly everyone's been walking around going, "I can't believe we did it..."

Keep checking for more pics of the finished building, and perhaps our first batch of cheese!

The End Is Near (And In This Case, That's a Good Thing)

Well, no, we haven't dropped off the face of the Earth. We weren't struck by lightning, and no one has picked up and flown to the Caribbean (tempting, though). Although, it might have seemed like it here, for which I can only apologize. We have actually been so hard at getting this thing done, no one has had time to stop and think. Add in delays caused by scheduling problems, and some plumbing issues (we won't go there), and school starting, we've been up to our eyeballs in all of it.
Progress has been made, however! In the past month we've gone from this:

To this:
(It's such an improvement, we can't even comprehend it yet.)



From this:

To this:The pasteurizer (a highly significant piece of equipment) is also finally here, and hooked up.

And lo and behold! We have running water, even after all we went through to get it.

Yes, we have persevered. In a pretty big way if you look at how far we've come, building this from the ground up. Now a dairy license could be ours as soon as Thursday. No, you can't stop progress...
Stay tuned, please because I promise to be more conscientious about updating again.