Jumping the Moon Dairy - the next chapter

[babsbag]

The floor is done in the milk house part of the trailer and I am putting up wall covering today and for the rest of the week. Taking it slow in this heat. I am having a discussion with my inspector regarding equipment placement. I told her that the milk pump and air separator were going in the milkbarn and this is what I get back from her. (Her bolding of text).

Here is what CCR 480.5(x) says,
(x) Milk pumps, pipelines, and air separators which are a part of an enclosed pipeline system may be installed in the passageway or an area approved by the Director, in the milking barn, provided, that all of the equipment is protected from contamination at all times. Plate type or internal tubular coolers may be installed in the milkhouse or passageway.

So she wants a site visit before I install the equipment but the equipment is wall mounted and backing has been installed already in the milk barn. I asked her if in the milking barn, provided, that all of the equipment is protected from contamination at all times, does not apply to me for some reason. Waiting for a reply.

If the job of the CA Dept of Ag is to make me crazy they are performing their job well. It there job is to wear me down so I will quit pursuing this endeavor they are failing. But here goes round two and it is getting old. I am not confrontational by nature and this takes a lot out of me.I just wish they would learn to read code and pay attention to commas...they do matter.

 

[Latestarter]

it is amazing isn't it? Power hungry seems to strike 99% of any/all govt functionaries... I don't know if it's a disease that festers down from the top or is just a function of the position... Either way, it is very annoying and counter productive to just about everything.

 

[misfitmorgan]

The floor is done in the milk house part of the trailer and I am putting up wall covering today and for the rest of the week. Taking it slow in this heat. I am having a discussion with my inspector regarding equipment placement. I told her that the milk pump and air separator were going in the milkbarn and this is what I get back from her. (Her bolding of text).

Here is what CCR 480.5(x) says,
(x) Milk pumps, pipelines, and air separators which are a part of an enclosed pipeline system may be installed in the passageway or an area approved by the Director, in the milking barn, provided, that all of the equipment is protected from contamination at all times. Plate type or internal tubular coolers may be installed in the milkhouse or passageway.

So she wants a site visit before I install the equipment but the equipment is wall mounted and backing has been installed already in the milk barn. I asked her if in the milking barn, provided, that all of the equipment is protected from contamination at all times, does not apply to me for some reason. Waiting for a reply.

If the job of the CA Dept of Ag is to make me crazy they are performing their job well. It there job is to wear me down so I will quit pursuing this endeavor they are failing. But here goes round two and it is getting old. I am not confrontational by nature and this takes a lot out of me.I just wish they would learn to read code and pay attention to commas...they do matter.

I think she is a little sore over you going over her head still and doesnt really know how to read code it seems.

On a separate note....are you planning to have AC in the trailers or do you have some other idea for keeping it cool at least in the cheese making one?

 

[OneFineAcre]

I just wish they would learn to read code and pay attention to commas...they do matter.

They matter indeed.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/business/worldbusiness/25comma.html?_r=0



http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle...usion-allscripts-lawsuit-turns-on-use-of.html

 

[Southern by choice]

 

[babsbag]

They matter indeed.

I never knew things actually went to court over a comma. My example was always much more simple.

Let's just say that I am taking bread to a party. I write, "I am bringing zucchini, banana, cranberry and poppy seed bread".

Am I bringing three loaves of bread or four? Our grammar classes (if you can call them that) are telling students that the last comma in a string like my example is not needed; it is implied. I beg to differ. One more example of laziness in writing.

 

[babsbag]

On a separate note....are you planning to have AC in the trailers or do you have some other idea for keeping it cool at least in the cheese making one?

I have an AC in the processing trailer. I am hoping that I will be milking in the early morning hours and won't need AC in the milking barn/milk house.

 

[OneFineAcre]

I never knew things actually went to court over a comma. My example was always much more simple.

Let's just say that I am taking bread to a party. I write, "I am bringing zucchini, banana, cranberry and poppy seed bread".

Am I bringing three loaves of bread or four? Our grammar classes (if you can call them that) are telling students that the last comma in a string like my example is not needed; it is implied. I beg to differ. One more example of laziness in writing.

The Oxford comma

 

[babsbag]

I didn't know it has a name until I read that second article you posted a link to. I use the Oxford comma all of the time, no guessing or assuming in my world. I tend to read things very literally too so it probably goes hand in hand.

 

[Mike CHS]

All of this detail kind of points at California not wanting small farm dairies. That is too bad.