Time seems to be getting away from me and I've become so much more tired. Lately I've been working on my days off so I can get more days off to actually do something with my free time. I call it paid vacation. ;)

Last Thursday Doc Shelley came to visit and looked around the farm. It was good to finally have her come and I think she liked it. I showed her everything except for the lambs, which we couldn't go see because we would have had to walk like a half of a mile up a mountain in a downpour.

I've also done cave work, which was interesting. I haven't made cheese a lot lately, though today I made romano.

One of the other interns is extremely difficult to motivate, though this is also the intern that totaled bob and anns car and has done some other areas of the work and didn't complete it up to par. A few weeks ago he broke some equipment on the milking machine and caused us to be late which made me furious. It wouldn't have been so bad except that was one of the days when Bob and Ann had to run somewhere to do something so him and I were the only ones working.

Bob said the next day when I told him that I should come up with a management plan for dealing with his behavior. However, I have seen him work and know what he cuts corners on and doesn't do right and I told Bob that there would be no managing that I would do because if I were given a way to deal with him, I would fire him. He clearly doesn't care about his work and he isn't required to do this for school; it's just a summer job. There's more to it also, but I'm done writing about it for now.

Next week we're supposed to be getting out load of hay, which will be a semi I believe. However, this is when I will be taking off my days for my extended vaca to Mark's dad's dairy farm which will be exciting. And the week after that Bob and Ann will be leaving for a whole week to go to Wisconsin to visit a cow dairy that he has part ownership in, so we will be responsible for everything for a whole week. I'm excited about it because we will finally be able to do our own schedules and such.

It's been incredibly rainy here though I suppose it has been in most of the Northeast. Kinda sucks when the sheep are wet and they rub up against you... They also look so ridiculously pathetic that they're cute. I often wonder if they get uncomfortable when it rains at night and into the early morning and the sun comes out at 8. Lol You know, wool and a dryer kind of. They are cute though.

I think that's all to post on for now. I can't believe it's been 2 weeks since the last time. I'll try to do a better job on keeping up with it.