Forgive me for my choice of title. This has really nothing to do with yogurt, but more about the connections that people make in this crazy world of ours.
My wife e-mailed me a tragic news story shortly after I arrived to work this morning.
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=7244095
For the past year my wife has been getting non-homogonized milk from an Amish farmer. My wife has met him, and as he has had some health problems recently, she has been quite concerned. I'm not much of a milk drinker, but the non-homogenized milk is easier on my kids stomachs, even my baby boy drinks it without any problems. All of my kids prior to this had been fed soy or rice milk until they got old enough to where the cow's milk didn't bother them anymore (bright red butts and a diarrhea). Not the best thing, since there is little or no fat in soy and rice milk.
One day the delivery man who brings the veggies and milk from the Amish farmers out in Rockville, Indiana said he brought some plain yogurt for us to try (several local families meet once a week to pick up the delivery), and since I like yogurt very much, and since I haven't been happy with store-bought yogurt for many years now my wife brought it home. Well we've been getting it ever since. He milks the cows, he makes the yogurt.
As you've probably already surmised, Melvin Fisher is the dairy farmer who was killed in yesterday's crash.
I just sat down to lunch, and opened the lunch box my wife packed for me this morning. And I just ate the last yogurt.
If you would, please say a prayer for a little girl who was air lifted to Riley Children's Hospital, who will be missing her parents and three brothers very much.