The Sadest Words: No Milk

It's over.  Christina had dried herself off.

Her milk and been dropping and dropping.  We were making do and hoping it would level off, but then one evening we went out to milk and there was nothing there.  Well, there was a little bit there, but after a while of milking and only two cups of milk to show for it, we knew it was over.  Christina was dry.

For the first time in almost two and a half years, we have no Christina milk.  The last two times she dried off, we were prepared with milk and cream waiting in the freezer.  This time we hadn't prepared because we hoped she wouldn't dry off.  We were wrong.

After growing used to drinking two gallons of milk a day, we have to suddenly learn to live with a whole lot less milk.  In less than two months Sunflower is due to calf and we'll be in milk again, but in the meantime we have to buy milk.  And it won't be that nasty commercial milk either!  We'll drink raw jersey milk or we'll skip it.  Luckily we can buy raw jersey milk in town, but it costs an awful lot.  Ugh.

The silver lining is that we get the rest of a dry period.  The first evening of not milking, we watched a movie right after dinner, because we could!  We'll have to do more of that.