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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

What a delight this post is ;-)

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

It's wonderful to learn that the "Institut Slavsquat du fromage fin" is now fully operational.

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Hearty congratulations to mum, pupsters and the team.

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Mar 18·edited Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

"...a spunky village Parmesan. Whatever. "

I've been making cheese for a year now, every week 2 extra gallons of raw organic milk from a local dairy that delivers. A humbling experience... from the same ingredients, one gets such different results. Cheese seems a perfect example of how one's intentions manifest.

We friends opened a "Brie" post-sauna Sat here at Doomstead Whey. Close, but no cigar. We also got to open the first bottle of my home brew ice-wine cabernet. Too sweet for my taste, but good sipping with the cheese.

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

love this post, thank you

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Are there in Russia wine-making supplies stores? Because they have the best mesh bags to hang the cheese, I use now only one of those. You seem to have just cheese cloth, right? And how this dog has so many puppies, she is some sort of champion. I thought it was her first pregnancy. I also thought that she is not yours. Puppies are very cute, I hope they all survive. The mom has only six nipples usually, how she manages? Feed her well, poor thingy, I don't know - red meat? Good luck with everything!

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Congratulation Riley,

As a French, I am glad to see that you won't drink samogon with you cheese but a red wine. You definitely are civilized.

But what kind of wine is it?

I wish i could send you a bottle or two but I don't know if it is possible at the present moment even if french companies in fact still operate in Russia and one Systema senior instructor has had a visa to come teach in France (great!!!). If it is possible, let me know, it would be a pleasure to send some bottles to add to my monthly contribution to your R and D countryside culinary experiment.

As to the puppies, I guess the cat presently lying on my laps wouldn't find it a good idea...

Try some camembert!

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Mar 19Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Thank you for making me smile today.

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Mar 18·edited Mar 19Liked by Edward Slavsquat

I enjoy your above-par sub-stack so much, every time. Thank you heartily from the Willamette River Valley in Oregon USA Inc.

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Wonderful! The village has such advanced technology , who would have thought it?

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Mar 19Liked by Edward Slavsquat

PLEASE LIST WHERE ONE (I) CAN APPLY FOR THE ESTEEMED POSITION OF THE “ED-CHAIR” OF THE SLAVSQUAT THINK TANK INSTITUTE?

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Riley discovered the perfect "blue pill".

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Cheese and puppies, what better combo could htere possibly be? ! Wow - ten! Clever girl. You are all so clever.

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Now that the Institute has mastered canine DNA, maybe now it has the technology to develop the antitdote to artitficial mRNA?

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

Warming the heart and belly💕💕💕💕. Such good news, finishing the maple sap boil here and started seedlings for summer tomatoes and peppers. No puppies, our ‘Genuine West Virginia Brown Dog’ Jenny, a foundling that looks a lot like yours has been spayed. Mountains of WV, USA. Sure wish our state department weren’t such war mongering dicks here and shipping not so problematic and pricy you’d score some Maple syrup. Do you have maples growing there?

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Mar 18Liked by Edward Slavsquat

You funny man Mr Riley…

Edward Institute for

Village Studies. 😂

Good one! May your

studies take you where

you wish to go…..

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