Get Out the Vote

 Link here.

Cheese Making the Old Fashioned Way

 One museum we spent a lot of time visiting was the Ballenberg Swiss Open-Air Museum. This was an assortment of buildings assembled here from their original locations throughout Switzerland and representing different regions and periods of time.

The cheese making house was a going concern that day and we stayed and spoke to the cheese maker.

I took videos and tried to keep them short to load here.  I went too long on one so it's not included. You should be able to get a sense of what's happening.  Above he's sitting stirring the large pot of milk and curds are forming.  He gave us tastes of the curds and granddaughter #1 drank some of the whey.

Notice the stick he is stirring with.  He called it a Christmas tree.

He gathers the curds and lets them drain then takes large fistfuls and fills molds to make the cheese.

Matt, my son in law, bought some cheese too.  Not sure if they ate it before we left Switzerland or if this was the cheese forgotten in the freezer.  It was remembered as we stood waiting for the train to arrive to take us back to Zurich on our last day in Meiringen.  Not enough time to run back to apartment to get it.

The Big News

 A must watch commentary complimenting Biden for the incredibly difficult decision he made for the good of our country.

Watch here.

Blueberry Season

 

My neighbor's blueberry patch.  I learned today it was planted 40 years ago from another nearby resident who arrived after I did to pick and said he remembers helping to plant these bushes.

My photo above does not do justice to the size of this patch.

Pick all you want for $2 per pint.  A real bargain.  This is my second trip to the patch next door and I'll be going back again.

Some of these are destined for topping on a Dutch baby pancake tomorrow morning and the rest in a blueberry cobbler.