MAMA-PEPPER THE MAD SCIENTIST

I leave for one day, and this is what I get to come home to!

In all reality, this stuff is awesome. I've said before that on our team (which means in our family) Hive account@mama-pepper is the main researcher. I'm more of a "doer" who just does things. She more of the "let's figure out how to do it right the first time" type, hence, the researcher. Time and time again, this have proven to not only be most helpful, but also it makes us a great team, especially when I wait for her to figure out how to do something before I actually do it.

WHAT IS SHE UP TO NOW?

The goal here is to make a DIY Goat Milker. It's novel idea with many examples of it that can be found online. This is the type of stuff that Hive account@papa-pepper would most likely never know about, except that my wife is a researcher. By combining some tubing, an electric vacuum sealer, a mason jar, and a few other pieces, we should be able to milk our goat at the press of a button, if this project works.

Well, since her "doer" was gone for most of the day, this researcher got busy and started assembling the project. We had been tracking down all of the parts for some time now (which was more difficult that we would have hoped). Thankfully, it looks like we've got them all now, so after an assembly and dry test last night. @Mama-pepper sterilized the parts and left them to dry overnight.

I love it when my little "mad scientist" gets to scribbling in her notebook and conducting her experiments. I never know what we'll be getting into next, but at least I've got help around here.

YOUTUBE VIDEOS OF THE GOAL

This is just a small sampling of some of the videos online featuring this idea. Soon, we should be able to add our own video to the online collection. We can't wait to actually try this. Besides that fact that it should take less effort to milk Daisy, this system is actually a contained collector too, so we won't need to worry about things like hair, dirt, or grass falling into the bucket. The milk will just head down the tube into the closed mason jar. How cool is that?