Day 18 JULY 24 OH COME LET US aDOORe HIM! FARMSVILLE AND THE GOOD LORD

About WFBF

Now he has started sending me emails and info about the WFBF.  The WFBF?  THE WORLD FAMOUS BUBBA FARMER?  NO NO NO BOCA.  The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation is the state’s largest general farm organization representing farms of all sizes, commodities and management styles. There are 43,000 member families that belong to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau. Voting Farm Bureau members (farmers) annually set the policy the organization follows, and are involved in local, state and national affairs making it a true grassroots organization.

Members belong to one of 61 county Farm Bureaus, all run by a board of directors made up of people working in production agriculture. County Farm Bureaus are involved in a variety of legislative or promotional activities. Members join for various reasons: to support legislative and public relations efforts, to qualify for member benefits and to support Wisconsin’s farm families.  Oh yes, I can see Bubba getting involved.

Farm Bureau Vision: Lead a growing and dynamic agriculture.

Farm Bureau Mission: Lead the farm and rural community through legislative representation, education, public relations, and leadership development.

Farm Bureau is the voice of agricultural producers at all levels. A Voice for Farmers…A Vision for Agriculture.

I can see it now...this fixer upper special.  Of course we had to stop the car and kick the tires so to speak.  Where are the police when you need them?  And speaking of police we have not seen one since we have been in Door County.  I kid you not.  Don't they have any crime up this way for Gosh sakes?

Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
- Howe, Edgar Watson

Bubba  loved the idea for future Grandkids...a tractor in a sandbox.  Oh yes Bubs, that's exactly what I had in mind.

SCHOPFS DAIRY FARM-  GOT MILK?

Door County's largest Dairy Farm.  And like the ice cream of our childhood, the smell of a dairy barn does the same.  This farm has 500 cows that are milked 3 x a day.  A very different method than what my Grandpa did...one guy does  all 500!

As measured in phosphorus, the waste output of 5,000 cows roughly equals a municipality of 70,000 people.  Eww.  In the United States, the top five dairy states are, in order by total milk production; California, Wisconsin, Idaho, New York and Pennsylvania.

Bring'em in Jose.  Talk about an assembly line.  He does one side then the Utter...oops the other.  We are talking precision technique and speed.  I'm thinking this is not one of those Organic Milk Farms....  Have any of you seen one of those robotic diary farms???

"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.”

-Charles Dickens

Herringbone and parallel parlors

In herringbone and parallel parlors, the milker generally milks one row at a time. The milker will move a row of cows from the holding yard into the milking parlor, and milk each cow in that row. Once all or most of the milking machines have been removed from the milked row, the milker releases the cows to their feed. A new group of cows is then loaded into the now vacant side and the process repeats until all cows are milked. Depending on the size of the milking parlor, which normally is the bottleneck, these rows of cows can range from four to six

The machine knows when to pull the milker off the cows teats.

Yes my darling here is where your Land Oh Lakes butter starts...  Have you milked a cow today???  And where does that Soy milk come from  Bubba?  or that Almond Milk?

“The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.”  
Bubba Collins

but more importantly here is where my Wilson's Ice Cream starts!  And yes notice the size of the TO GO ice cream container.  What kind of freezer do you need to have to hold that colossal super sized container!!


I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
Bill Bryson 

TRANSFIGURATION  OF OUR LORD'S CHAPEL IN SISTER BAY

Remember this lovely Chapel from our 2009 trip?  This family built it behind their home in Sister Bay and keep it open and welcome all of us Orthodox tourists in to pray.  And again I told Bubba that I wanted my own Chapel and that my library/office is not cutting it.  Since there is no blood test at the door figuring out if you are an Orthodox I susppose they also welcome "others" as well.

A serene pathway to the Lord's Chapel...Bubs says it was very nice of this family to build this prayerful place and invite us in to worship.  What would you call our Chapel?   Is there a Patron Saint of Farms?

West Point’s "Harder Right"
This quotation is from the "Cadet Prayer." It is repeated every Sunday in chapel services at West Point:
"Make us choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong, and never to be contented with half truth when whole truth can be won. Endow us with courage that is born of loyalty to all that is noble and worthy, ...

Ok, Boca, I have an idea.  I can get you one of those prefab Gazebo's and have it hauled up to my soon to be farm.  Then we could have Father Chris over for some real Blessing...not a bad idea Bubs.  I'll even let you be my Deacon.  Deacon Bubba.  Has quite a ring to it.

The chanting music plays 24/7 and the candles are lit for the Orthodox tourists.  What a lovely gesture and sharing of their belief.  Bubba liked the idea that it was down the street from Wilson's.....  So Bubba and I struck a deal.  Every time he Deacons' for me, I will make him a Wilson Style Hot Fudge Sundae.  Done and AMEN!