What R you doing today?

[Wade E]

Relaxing tonight as a long hard hot day at work has me exhausted!

 

[Tom]

Dan PLEASE do NOT PEE in the wine you send out (me & Juilie)

 

[Julie]

Dan PLEASE do NOT PEE in the wine you send out (me & Juilie)

Yea,

 

[Runningwolf]

I have no idea what I am going to do come September when I have to work Fridays.

I have no idea what I am going to do when I find a job again and have to go to work everyday! Heck I have about 40 cases of bottles delabeled and cleaned right now and 20 more to go. Come sept/oct I'll be picking up another 50 or so to get me through the winter.

 

[Julie]

I have no idea what I am going to do when I find a job again and have to go to work everyday! Heck I have about 40 cases of bottles delabeled and cleaned right now and 20 more to go. Come sept/oct I'll be picking up another 50 or so to get me through the winter.

I sat down and figured out my retirement and I can retire in 3 1/2 years, I will make more on pension that I would at the district. I just need to negotiate them paying for my health insurance until I'm 65, the superintendent says they would do that.

So hopefully I will be doing that during the daytime someday.

 

[Runningwolf]

Dan PLEASE do NOT PEE in the wine you send out (me & Juilie)

I can only ensure you sterile wine!

 

[countrygirl]

why don't you tell us Dan?

yeah, dan, lol lol...
my invert syrup got above boiling while i'm reading the forum...
turning doooowwwn the heat, lol
wish i could turn the heat down outside...

 

[arcticsid]

http://www.adn.com/2010/08/04/1396243/750-pound-bear-shot-raiding-bear.html

Suddenly makes the big guy biker neighbor sem like a friend!

No offecne big dude, lol.

 

[ffemt128]

Thats sounds great Doug, how many do you have stashed so far?

I dont remeber if you said you have ever made the E berry before, but that stuff will stain everything bad, including your fingeres. Wear rubber gloves if you can, or you will be explaining the purple fingeres for weeks to come!!!

LMAO! Guess how I know?

LOL

As of now I have 57 lbs of berries frozen. Going to start a 3 gallon batch today. Will be steaming berries while I work.

 

[ffemt128]

I sat down and figured out my retirement and I can retire in 3 1/2 years, I will make more on pension that I would at the district. I just need to negotiate them paying for my health insurance until I'm 65, the superintendent says they would do that.

So hopefully I will be doing that during the daytime someday.

That's great Julie. I have many more years before I can afford to do that. Hope it works out....

Just think of all the time you'll have to make more wine. You'll be putting an addtion on and have to go back to work to pay for carboys and supplies...

 

[ffemt128]

Well, I have fired up the steamer, going to start a 3 gallon batch (empty carboy) using 11 lbs of elderberries steamed. I'll check sg and acid of juice once it is done steaming and cools.

At 9:45 first 5 lbs 5 oz of elderberries appear to be juiced out. I removed the remaining pulp and placed the other 5 lb 13 oz bag of berries in the juicer. I used a new pan for this batch as I want to measure the amount of juice from each batch. Looks to be a fair amount of juice.

I checked the temp of the juice in the first collection pot and it was down to 96 degrees. I transferred to a gallon jug for temporary holding and also to measure the amount of juice. From 5 lbs 5 oz of berries I received 92 oz of juice from steam juicing.

The cans of vinters harvest juice are 96 oz. Does anyone know if those are concentrated in anyway or just juice as was done here? Anyway, second batch is juicing away. I'll probably end up a little more than 1 1/2 gallons of pure juice for a 3 gallon batch of wine.

Second batch of elderberries are steamed. I ended up with approx 102 oz of juice from 5lb 13 oz of berries. I was pretty much on target for my ending juice. Now off to start a recipe.

 

[ffemt128]

Went out early this am and picked another 4 1/2 lbs of berries. Not sure what the rest of the day will bring.

 

[Mud]

Picked aanother 4 gallons of elderberry screens yesterday. Reduced that to 1.5 gallons of berries. Didn't weight them as the scale wasn't handy, but it's got to be close to 13 lbs so far. I had hoped to press them this year but didn't get the press built.

 

[xanxer82]

Spent the evening with Kat at Serpent Ridge Vineyard. Supported Greg (the owner) on his Friday summer events.
He's going to help me out with some merlot grapes this year.
I'm going to help with crush

 

[Tom]

Score!

just got 56# of Plums for $2.00. Good deal.. Plum wine is next this afternoon

 

[xanxer82]

Got an interview date for a better paying job in the same county department I'm working in now. Monday- Friday
That means I can leave my weekend job after a few months when benefits kick in if I get this "upgrade"

 

[Mud]

Considering arson. One of my boys spilled 70% isopropyl alcohol on our living room floor. It had a shellac finish. "Had" being the operative word. Now it's got bald patches and a very clear footprint.

 

[AndyL]

Supposed to be going out to Calaway Park for a little family fun...

But My daughter and her friend decided last night - that Dad made for a great toy... Climbed on my back (sitting on the stairs) flip em over onto the floor... Then got that look from mom - so I said no more... Figured that was the end of it - so kinda relaxed...

Well both girls a couple seconds later piled on again; Nursing a bruised cheek, and my back really didn't appreciate getting bent over into a pretzel like that... I'm living in a lieing flat on the hardwood floor world today...

My daughter got a nice bruise on the noggin... Hrm, this somehow doesn't seem fair...

 

[Julie]

Got an interview date for a better paying job in the same county department I'm working in now. Monday- Friday
That means I can leave my weekend job after a few months when benefits kick in if I get this "upgrade"

Good Luck Dan,

 

[jtstar]

Thrusday on my way home from work I decided to take country roads to look for fruit and I came across a nice patch of elderberries but they were not ripe yet then I took another road and ran across some wild plumes and they are not ripe yet then futher down the road I ran across some brushes that had white berries on it but not sure what they are thinking maybe choke cherry but not sure now today not doing a lot I went into the kitchen and made a red velvet cake for my wife birthday