Holdover from Thursday - On our way from Clare to Coldwater last Thursday I saw this huge facility in St. John, MI. I did some research and learned that it is MWC, a cheese making facility. Every year they turn over 2.9 BILLION pounds of milk into 300 MILLION pounds of block cheese. These numbers boggle my mind.
2.9 BILLION pounds of milk per year is 7.94 million pounds per day. At 40,000#/truck that is 200 trucks full of milk arriving on an average day.
FACTOID: Michigan ranks sixth in the United States for total milk production and first in the nation for milk production per cow. The state's dairy herd of over 450,000 cows produces more than 12 billion pounds of milk annually.
Screenshot from Google Maps
Saturday morning my brother stopped by so that we could discuss Mom's situation. Our 97 year old Mom still lives by herself. Physically she is is in good health (awesome health for someone 97 years old) but mentally her mind thinks she is living 40 years ago.
Saturday afternoon I went out to Mom's, picked her up and she spent the afternoon with us. Kathy went out this morning and picked her up and she spent the day with us. Mom virtually never stops talking, asking questions. For old folks who remember vinyl records she is like a record where the needle can't get out of the track.
Late Saturday afternoon two of Kathy's sisters, who live in northwest Ohio, came for a visit.
My brother puts drops in Mom's eyes every morning and evening and takes her the other 3 meds she takes. He plays the guitar ands sings a little. His way of stopping the endless stream of questions is to take his guitar down when he spends time with her in the evenings, and playing and singing.
Both days we have been here there has been some type of girls competitions involving horses. Mom grew up around horses. She sat in the coach drivers seat and watched the girls/horses compete.
I took these photos through our windshield. 
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