Yoda .... VT Cheese Makin Rock Star

"Carleton Yoder is probably one of the few artisan cheesemakers in the country who picks up his main ingredient in a Honda minivan with his toddler's car seat strapped in front of nine stainless steel milk cans." Read the rest of the article here

Also check out the new "Vermont Cheese Book" which features Champlain Valley Creamery among 33 VT Cheesemakers.

Yoda and I have known each other since 3rd grade, we were college room-mates, and I was there when he and his wife went on one of their first "dates" (uhhhh....ask me sometime what that date comprised of). He's got a degree in engineering, is a former hard cider maker, DIY cheese guru and generally all around good guy .... he is basically the coolest person I know.

While if you are here in CA I cant really tell you to run out and get his product (right now he's chosen to keep it local/regional) you can find his cheese around VT, New England and sometimes as far south as NYC.

LJ

douche - bag....

So its a beautiful morning on the Monterey Peninsula and I'm enjoying the commute into work ... ya know its warm down here when the lizards are out sunning themselves before 9am.

So I'm heading up a little rise outside Sand City and catch out of the corner of my eye someone about to make the 180 to start the rise and I think "hey, I'll slow down (trust me...I wasnt going that fast to start with), enjoy the view, say hello, talk smack about how nice it is, ect". It takes a while but on the flat behind the shopping plaza he catches me .... 30 something, MTB with slicks, paniers, 1986 Avenir helmet, headphones on....instead of any recognition he's working hard to cruise by me and gives me a little look over the shoulder and a grit of the teeth.....without changing my cadence I'm back up his butt on the next rise and just pedal by....

Not to label (notice I didnt include a unflattering picture from the web of some stereotypical commuter who hasn't mailed order new shorts or a helmet in a decade) but why do these type of commuters always think rolling into work is a race.....trust me, catching me is no big prize...even if I'm pedaling my ass off. Anyway, as the hippies say it sort of "ruined my vibe"....but there was no denying it was a beautiful morning and his rude intuition into my morning commute was quickly forgotten.

and...from my cousin MO , for your amusement:

"Maybe you've already seen it, but it's fun to make fun of NJS posers:
http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/

For instance (from the Brooklyn Craigslists):

You ran over my cat with your fixed gear track bike- m4w - 24

Reply to: [deleted] Date: 2007-07-09, 10:30AM EDT

You were the tall, skinny girl in the skinny jeans and winter cap who ran over my cat because you could not stop your fixed gear track bike in time. Don't you think you should pay my vet bills? Also, I thought you were cute, even if in a stinky and reckless sort of way. Maybe if we get over this hump we can go hang out together and stuff.

Everything about this post screams that it's a fake, but I prefer to pretend that it isn't. I also hope Judd Apatow reads Craigslist. This should be his next movie."