What R you doing today?

[grapeman]

Tom sorry for the loss of your friend.

 

[tatud4life]

Tom, sorry to hear about the loss of your friend.

 

[tatud4life]

Finally bottled my very first batch of muscadine wine!!!! The flavor is wonderful!!! (I might be a little bias)

Also, filtered and bottle the blueberry last night. I can't wait to get my allinonepump!!! It took me 2 hours to filter it using my Vinbrite. Pruned my vines, trees, and ornamental grasses yesterday as well. Looking for a good crop this year!!

 

[lonesomechicken]

Started a batch of Cherry-Lemon-Lime Skeeter Pee today. My five year old helped. She likes to do the stirring between reading **** and Jane. She did taste it before I added the tannin, energizer, and nutrient and gave me 2 thumbs up.

So I got that going for me.

 

[grapeman]

Not wine related, but going in today to the cancer center for my weekly/10 days appointment. Hopefully we will soon do a scan and see if we have the lymphomas shrinking yet. Then sometime next week the third cycle of chemo. We may discuss getting a port put in for easier access for chemo and blood tests. Right now I look like a drug addict with pokes and bruises all over me (of course I may be addicted to the oxycodone by now). Maybe some day wine will taste good to me again and I can have the occasional glass of wine.

 

[Pumpkinman]

Rich, I hope that you are kicking the crap out of the cancer! If you need anything, I'll do my best to get up there to give ya a hand!
Tom

 

[tatud4life]

Best of luck to you Rich in your visit to the center! You'll come out of this!

 

[Pumpkinman]

WOW! This whole thing just got a lot more weird...the investigators just found that my buddy Randy, Debs husband was also found dead...but murdered 3 years ago and still in the house....this is surreal, I couldn't make this stuff up, this is worse than a soap opera.
I have to Contact the NY State Troopers tomorrow and let them know everything I knew about these guys up until my buddy went missing in Feb 2010.
This is just flat out nuts, and to think, I picked today to cut back on my beer and wine consumption.....

 

[Runningwolf]

Holy smokes Tom, Sorry to hear this but it sure is interesting. It's like several years ago when we had the "pizza Bomber" case here in Erie. I actually saw the entire thing go down when the bomb went off strapped to the bank robber. The incidents that followed and preceeded the case were unreal and all related.

 

[Julie]

Holy cow, Tom!!! This is weird, sorry to hear this, hope everything gets sorted.

 

[grapeman]

Very strange indeed Tom.

 

[ibglowin]

Wow, of all the places to end up. Wonder if he went to work at Hanford. Sorry for your loss Dave (it must have been terribly difficult when you were only a kid)

I located him in Kennewick, Washington in 2003.

 

[ibglowin]

Sounds crazy right but it happens more often than what we realize I think. Here is a story of a very similar incident that happened down in Albuquerque a few years ago. Just bizarre.

WOW! This whole thing just got a lot more weird...the investigators just found that my buddy Randy, Debs husband was also found dead...but murdered 3 years ago and still in the house....this is surreal, I couldn't make this stuff up, this is worse than a soap opera.
I have to Contact the NY State Troopers tomorrow and let them know everything I knew about these guys up until my buddy went missing in Feb 2010.
This is just flat out nuts, and to think, I picked today to cut back on my beer and wine consumption.....

 

[ibglowin]

Praying for you Rich (and of course Tom as well).

Not wine related, but going in today to the cancer center for my weekly/10 days appointment. Hopefully we will soon do a scan and see if we have the lymphomas shrinking yet. Then sometime next week the third cycle of chemo. We may discuss getting a port put in for easier access for chemo and blood tests. Right now I look like a drug addict with pokes and bruises all over me (of course I may be addicted to the oxycodone by now). Maybe some day wine will taste good to me again and I can have the occasional glass of wine.

 

[Boatboy24]

Racked the CC Sterling Syrah (will bottle in a few weeks). I've been working this one since August and had serious concerns about it for quite a while. But now, it looks like it'll produce a damn fine $3 bottle of wine. Patience pays. Also degassed and stabilized Red Mountain Trio #2. This is a milestone for me, as its the first time I've topped up a batch with wine I made. Red Mtn Trio #1 was bottled in December (and is damn good, if I do say so myself )

Tom: sorry to here about recent events. So sad.

Rich: for some reason, I jus know you'll pull through this with flying colors.

 

[Hokapsig]

Not wine related, but going in today to the cancer center for my weekly/10 days appointment. Hopefully we will soon do a scan and see if we have the lymphomas shrinking yet. Then sometime next week the third cycle of chemo. We may discuss getting a port put in for easier access for chemo and blood tests. Right now I look like a drug addict with pokes and bruises all over me (of course I may be addicted to the oxycodone by now). Maybe some day wine will taste good to me again and I can have the occasional glass of wine.

Hey Rich, just an FYI, if you really need help around the harvest time, I have a spare week of vacation. And maybe I can get Doug to ride along too...

 

[tatud4life]

Here's a couple of my lovely ladies!!! I bottled the peach today. It has a wonderful color and flavor!!!

 

[ffemt128]

Not wine related, but going in today to the cancer center for my weekly/10 days appointment. Hopefully we will soon do a scan and see if we have the lymphomas shrinking yet. Then sometime next week the third cycle of chemo. We may discuss getting a port put in for easier access for chemo and blood tests. Right now I look like a drug addict with pokes and bruises all over me (of course I may be addicted to the oxycodone by now). Maybe some day wine will taste good to me again and I can have the occasional glass of wine.

Hey Rich, just an FYI, if you really need help around the harvest time, I have a spare week of vacation. And maybe I can get Doug to ride along too...

I'll put aside some time and if needed I'm in depending on the timing.

 

[pjd]

Hey Rich, just an FYI, if you really need help around the harvest time, I have a spare week of vacation. And maybe I can get Doug to ride along too...

I am game as well! Just say when, It would be a privilege and actually would be fun!

 

[ffemt128]

Just checked the PH and acid of my 2012 Noble Muscadine. PH=3.23 and TA was .63%. I think last year's grapes will be better than the 2011 harvest. Reds checked out as follows PH=2.82 TA=.78%. Do the PH and TA appear to correlate with each other for the various readings provided?