What R you doing today?

[Dominique1978]

Seafood meets sweetwine.

 

[jojabri]

After taking the labels off 5 cases of wine bottles and getting them all cleaned up I decided to play with a new toy my husband bought me. So I made this. View attachment 16747View attachment 16748View attachment 16749
It's the first one I ever made.

What toy does that?

 

[ShelleyDickison]

What toy does that?

I would think any of the cricut machines, but Roy just bought me the Cricut Explorer. You basically just cut everything out and then put it together. This one took 2 hours or so but I would think once you get the hang of it, the time would go down. Well thats what I am hoping anyway.

 

[jojabri]

I would think any of the cricut machines, but Roy just bought me the Cricut Explorer. You basically just cut everything out and then put it together. This one took 2 hours or so but I would think once you get the hang of it, the time would go down. Well thats what I am hoping anyway.

I was thinking Cricut, but wasn't sure. Very pretty BTW.

I love my Cricket. I don't have many cartridges, but I am able to hook it to the laptop to make custom cutouts.

 

[GreginND]

Finally a calm day. I carefully sprayed the vineyard with glyphosate. I'd be very surprised if I hit any of the vines. I was painstakingly slow going by hand. I have no alternative against this damn mallow that is taking over. Now that my trellis poles are in I have to get grass planted.

 

[cooldood]

Taking Sam swimming

 

[pjd]

Today is a rainy Sunday so a perfect time to catch up on necessary winery chores. Racked 18 carboys of Chilean reds and washed and de-labeled 6 cases of bottles. The Chilean reds are excellent! This year when I bought the juice buckets, i hit them with a pretty good dose of k-meta then inoculated the juice with a starter of RC-212 yeast. this in an effort to preserve some aromas. I am happy to say that it worked! I can certainly tell the varietal by the aroma, in the past, they all smelled alike. I believe this yeast choice is making a big difference in this years wine!

 

[plowboy]

Took marlin swimming lol

 

[ffemt128]

I didnt get much work on the house done today due to intermittent rain. It was still a very productive weekend. About 4:00 I went to the cellar and filtered 36 gallons of last year PA juices. Most were blends. Will likely bottle this week...

 

[buffalofrenchy]

started an American Pale Ale.
cleaned bottles for tomorrow - Dragon blood bottling.

 

[buffalofrenchy]

Seafood meets sweetwine.

looks good. hungry now

 

[ffemt128]

Brought the bike out to the dealership for first service. Hoping to make it home before the rain starts...may try to bottle some blends this afternoon.

 

[buffalofrenchy]

Bottling dragon blood

 

[ffemt128]

After getting back from taking the bike for service appt and after I finished working for the day I started bottling those wines which were filtered yesterday. I managed to get 26 gallons bottled. I now have a dilemma, I have more empty carboys than I have full.

 

[Runningwolf]

Doug that is a good thing. Now is the time to seriously start bottling and emptying carboys in preparation of CA & Italian Pails along with the local harvest.

 

[ffemt128]

Im definately looking forward to local stuff. Going to concentrate on seyval, vidal, diamond, reisling and a few others. I have a stock built up so I want to go for some higher end stuff. I get the chilean reds, may pick up one or 2 italian pails and try mlf on them. Any local reds I get I may also get grapes and do a combination.

 

[Runningwolf]

Im definately looking forward to local stuff. Going to concentrate on seyval, vidal, diamond, reisling and a few others. I have a stock built up so I want to go for some higher end stuff. I get the chilean reds, may pick up one or 2 italian pails and try mlf on them. Any local reds I get I may also get grapes and do a combination.

Good luck, most of the Vidal in the region died along with a good deal of the reds. I'm sure what is left, will be scooped up by the wineries. They are already buying juice from Oregon due to lack of crop.

 

[ffemt128]

Bummer to hear that Dan.

 

[Hokapsig]

racked the Diamond (still dropping crystals) and back sweetening it too. Added some Orange/Pineapple concentrate to 6 gallons of Moscato. Getting ready to backsweeten and bottle the Cranberry Pomegranate.

 

[jojabri]

Ripped off my local Meijer store by getting $209.66 worth of goods for $60.74. This included enough Old Orchard frozen juice concentrate for 5 gal apple/cherry and 5 gal apple/passion/mango batches. Guess what I'm doing tomorrow?