Less Trash

In the days before paper filters, milk was strained through cloth, a reusable resource.  We've decided to adopt this practice once a day: cloth in the morning, paper filter in the evening.  We still do a paper filter once a day because it's a consistent medium to ensure the milk is straining fast.  If the filtering slows down, it's a symptom of mastitis, so a daily fast filter makes us feel good.

With so little packaging coming in the house, our trash volume has gone way down.  We have changed our trash schedule to only putting the bin out every two weeks, along with the recycles.  The contrast between our family of seven putting out a bin every two weeks and people down the street with two or three full bins every week is a demonstration of the trash produced by standard American living.  How much less we would consume if we just stopped throwing so much away.

Beefy spent a good portion of the day running around the pasture.  At nine months old, sometimes he seems so grown up, but then he runs around the pasture kicking his feet and we remember he's still a little kid cow.  When he came to us at 2-1/2 months, the first thing he did was run down the pasture.  Maybe he thinks he's a horse.