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

day 9

today is my trip back to Minnesota, I left at 1100 and arrived home at 0032 a very tired person.My flight in Atlanta was delayed due to bad weather.  Dezzy yelled at me for a hour after I got home he lost his voice he yelled so long, the dogs were happy to see me.I am glad I had Tuesday off from work

day 8

today is Sunday we went on a ride to see the black forest. we also saw a monastery from 1200s with paint from 1400s.We had chips and water in the car