With Andrew back from vacation, things are quickly settling back into normality. My day was spent in the cheese room packaging mountains of cheese. I had fun playing around with our new fancy cheese paper, which I'm really excited that we have now. Plastic wrap works fine for storing cheese, but the best thing is actual cheese paper, which has a layer of waxed paper and a layer of thin, breathable plastic. It's less forgiving in terms of the wrapping looking nice, but once you get a system going, I think it looks much better. Anyway, these are the kinds of things Benjamin and I geek out about together.
The rest of the farm survived the Farmer's absence just fine. Yann has been much healthier and is now allowed to go outside every day with no problem. The big news here is that the papers were signed on Wednesday to purchase the main farm property! They have been fundraising for this project for quite a while now, as the central 68 acres of the farm that contain all the buildings and barns were on a long-term lease. Now, after 30 years, they are owned by the farm.