Sorry I've jinxed us!

[whino-wino]

It finally stopped snowing about 1/2 hour ago. The day was not a total waste, in fact I got quite a bit done inside. I finished de-gassing the Black Currantand Pineapple wines and added Super Kleer to both of them today. Checked the Elderberry wine in the primary and it was at 1.015. Close enough. So that's in the secondary now.


I got a present from a friend at work yesterday. He is also a winemaker and a few years ago had attempted to make sparkling wine. He didn't like it so he gave me all of his stoppers and wires. I have about 15 champagne bottles sitting around so I figured I'd set aside a couple of gallons of the pineapple for that purpose. After de-gassing and adding super kleer, I racked some into a 3 gallon carboy and treated that with K-Meta and K-Sorbate. The rest I separated into 2 one gallon jugs and left untreated. These I will use toattempt to make sparkling wine.

Elderberry on the far left (bubbling like crazy), WE Vintner's Reserve Red Zinfandel in center (SG at .998 today and a bubble every 20 seconds or so) Black Currant on the right:

I also cleaned out the refridgerator (that is not a fun job), did all of the dishes, washed all of the countertops, cleaned the stove (also not fun)and hauled the garbage to the dumpster (and got the truck stuck twice, once on the way there and once on the way back - now that's fun

). It took me 45 minutes to go 2 miles and dump the garbage.

 

[Jack on Rainy]

What a recovery Whino! A post a few hours ago mentioningover two feet of snow and no mention of it in the last post. Good adjustment! I wish I could do as well.
We are blanketed with thick white and iced over again so I am whining. We drove over to Warroad Saturday in the blizzard. Saw some fishermen camping in what turned into about 18" of snow at their location! Warroad had 14" or so of heavy wet stuff for theirHigh School Prom. What a mess! The kids didn't seem to let it get to them at all, though. Good times at their ages.I got more exercise over there than planned

!


Edited by: Jack on Rainy

 

[NorthernWinos]

The kids might remember a snow prom....hope they do.

Edit:
Trying not to let the white stuff get to me either...anymore. Melting fast....beautiful sunny day.

Keeping busy transplanting kole crops downstairs today and planting more seeds....

Did venture out on the blizzard day and brought some most valuable plants in from the greenhouse, trays covered under one arm and snow over my knees in one drift....Brought a couple more flats in yesterday as the temps were damn cold last night...Just don't trust the heat lamps...sometimes when they burn out they break the circuit...I am running off of two circuits just incase....The propane heater was off this morning and the greenhouse was filled with stinky gas...Guess we had it on too low. Everything out there is okay......Will move all the flats back out in a couple days...I hope....

Life goes on.

Edited by: Northern Winos

 

[grapeman]

Good luck to everyone hit by these snows. May it melt quickly!


NW, the gas heater probably robbed all the oxygen and put itself out. That's the problem with small airtight greenhouses- they don't really have enough oxygen to sustain the flames, especially when they get sealed up with a blanket of snow. If you use it again, crack the door a half inch to let an air supply in without too much cold. The problem there is if it goes out, you still have that air crack letting in cold air with no heat generated.


I feel guilty, we had beautiful weather over the weekend(and the last 2 weeks for that matter). Today is miserable, raining-.36 inches so far today. Temps are cool being under 50 all day today. This should slow things back down where they belong for a while.

 

[NorthernWinos]

There is usually a crack under the door, guess that was plugged with
snow...never really thought about it being air tight....There was no
wind last night either, usually a wind whistling through there, so you are probably right about it running out
of oxygen.



Sunny and bright here, warm and water is running...Seems the snow melted faster yesterday...it will be gone soon...rain by Thursday, not conducive for planting field crops nor gardens....Poor spinach seed is out there...under a little hoop tent flanked with snow.

 

[JWMINNESOTA]

I looked at my golf clubs this past weekend, knew better than to actually pick them up!