Hah, Linuxboy, I am trying to keep the moneypit thing a bit of a secret from my husband, but when he calls from the store asking "is there anything you need," and I say, "a bigger refrigerator," I guess it's no longer much of a secret. (So: did you buy the foam topper?) But affliction: yes. At least this one I can share!
DeejayDebi, tell me: where in the list did making cheese fit in to your DIY activities? Was it, like, a gateway to doing everything else or was it a later obsession? With me it's a later one...though I appear to always try a whole bunch of things at once and wonder why I have no time to do the laundry. But as you said it makes shopping a lot easier if you're looking for nothing and everything! How true.
Hello Sailor. Yeah, I call them greenhouses even though they're technically hoophouses or high tunnels...unheated. Seems easier when I am talking to the unconverted! I am glad to hear there are others who grow veg to go with their own cheese
John, thanks so much for the tip! It's a learning process, figuring out how a forum works. I'll learn though: the cheese makes me pretty motivated. And the camembert: so far my most favorite of all my favorites (as in, they're all my favorites I am so greedy). It was so funny. I brought one to a party and made sure EVERYONE knew that I MADE it. That is so not me! So cheesemaking is obviously taking over my personality too. Ah well.
Hey FarmerJd, I have a solution for you: get someone else to drive, someone who preferably won't mind pulling over!! Yeah, the scavenging thing is part of a piece I think. I forage too, which is also loads of fun (free food!). I think you would love a rocket stove. They're such simple technology but really easy to cook things on quickly (always quickly). And one can fry cheese on top...
