up north

Jessica and I went up to the north shore.We left sat.and came back Sunday.We drove the north shore drive and the gunflint trail.and shopped We bought fudge and smoked fish. it was fun but too much time in the car.next time we should spend 2 days at our destination when it is so far away. 

soap

I finally made some soap, and now I don’t know why I was so afraid of making soap.It was easy but time consuming.The emersion mixer made it much quicker.I made mint soap and soft spoken which is lemon and lavender. Now to wait 3 weeks of dying before I can use them. Aside benefit is it makes the house smell great now that the fragrance is a little diluted

today

today Andrew Jessica and I had lunch with Shelly at the Thai place. Lunch was great but I got a parking ticket for parking at a broken meter. Andrew Jessica and I went home and made Chock cherry jelly and labeled my wine and carried it down stairs I now have 232  bottles of wine[Andrew and I counted them] and no place to put my 15 gallons of wine to bottle in 6 months. I guess  I have a lot to drink!!!!!

weekend

this last week end was all about chock cherries,Shelly Jessica and I picked them then I needed to clean wine bottles so I could start some chock cherry wine I had to bottle the 2 kinds of wine so I could use the tubs to make new wine.I then processed the cherries and made juice I have over 100 bottles of wine in my kitchen waiting for labels and to go to the cooler downstairs.

wine

We heard a loud bang,Macgyver ran to see what it was, it sounded like a gun or something falling. OH NO MY just bottled wine decided it did not want to stay in the bottles. I bottled it 4 days ago .It was popping corks, 6 at first then a couple more. I decided to uncork all the wine when I did it was like small volcanoes erupting when I pulled the corks out .I then placed it all in a container and add more chemicals What a mess!!Now I am just watching it and hoping it doesn't pop any more corks.Is that how far in the cork was I keep asking myself or is it coming out?

cherries

This weekend was all about cherries. Dave and Tammy helped me pick them. I bottled my pinot noir wine after sweetening it, with help from Mark- tasting it. so I could start some cherry wine. I also made cherry jelly.I forget how much stirring and waiting it takes to make the juice for both wine and jelly.The jelly did work= no syrup this time.The chock cherries are almost ripe so I’ll be repeating the whole process in 2 weeks.I love the results so I guess the work is worth it.

Today I admitted that I have a new addiction playing solitaries on the computer all the different forms I tell myself I am keeping my brain young doing it.It does keep me from eating.. I had Morgan for the weekend Jerry went to Wisconsin dells riding his bike.She continues  to be afraid of the stairs and a very active dog but an ok visitor