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At work we throw an annual BBQ for our volunteers, which is today. I made 20lbs of pork sausage, have about 30lbs or ribs, and 20lbs of chicken thighs, and 1 vegan sausage. It's raining today (remnants of hurricane Barry) so under a tent, but all still good. I like getting paid to grill :) Ribs...

Whisky night. Theme is Canadian whisky.

Blah, spent yesterday evening uncorking 60 bottles of muscat that were popping corks. This was my 2017, and as the 2018 is almost ready I'll probably combine them into one batch. Question is do I label it 2017 or 2018, or both?

Mmmm, so many types of dead animals :)

Congrats! Hope to get one in a few years too.

July 1st up here :)

Got the patio finished today! I'm done with shoveling and the like for a while.

I love this strip mall in Grand rapids Michigan.

I've been digging for 3 days, but got the area cleared where we are putting in a patio, under some of our trellised grapes. It's about 13*18. Got it filled in with gravel today. Will compress it tomorrow or Tuesday, then lay the interlocking brick. Also took my dad and father in law to a CFL...

Sorry missed your post last month. They are treated boards, but the newer Brown stuff that does not have arsenic in it. They are 5/4 x 6. I used a couple 2x2's along each side for bracing. I think we're almost at 5 years with these now, still in great shape. Garden is coming along well to.

Ah, see you just need relatives who are commercial grape growers and will give you freebies :)

Veggie garden and grapes both coming along. Could use less rain and more sun/heat for both though.

I generally never spray the same thing twice in a row, but a couple of weeks ago I sprayed Pristine, and this morning I did again. It's been so wet here I'm concerned about mildew early in the season, and some bunches are still opening up, so wanted to get some protection from that and also...

I was going through my vines and removing all the growth down at ground level. One one on my Riesling, I plucked off the little shoots down an inch or so above the ground, then noticed that was the only green on the whole vine. The rest of it (goes up 3 feet then splits in each direction along...

Got some nice bunches showing on my Muscat now. Sprayed with pristine today to keep of fungus and black rot. Garden is getting greener too.

Made a loaf of sour dough bread yesterday, turned out pretty well! Good flavour and it rose nicely. Will try again next week when the starter is further along (this was just 3 days old, and discard from when I fed it).

Dug up 150 sq feet of back yard, down about 4", to get read to install the patio stones I picked up last week.

An update, it's still in a bucket, but sometime since september it did ferment. Checked it last night (had forgotten about it) and it's at 0.990, and SO2 level is still at 18ppm. Will rack it tomorrow and see if it's salvagable. Tasted OK but might be oxidized based on colour (bit brownish red).