What R you doing today?

[GreenEnvy22]

Made another hot sauce today. This one is a good deal hotter than the last one.
4 Ghost peppers, a few Seranno and cayanne, a bunch of other veggies from the garden, then red wine vinegar.
Instead of water, I used some of our 2016 muscat.
So I'm naming this sauce Ghost-Cat.

Has a nice flavour with the wine in there.

 

[crooked cork]

I started a 5 gal batch of Strawberry and a 5 gallon batch of rasberry today. I also removed the concrete steps for my back door of my garage and am going to replace them with wooded ones. Worked 9 hours at my day job.

 

[abrewkat]

Today I racked a 5 gal batch of rhubarb to a new carboy and degassed slightly (SG 0.996), and am setting up a sour cherry batch, as after this years harvest I think I have enough for 5 more batches still in the freezer- 60 lbs this year off my two little trees! And then I'm going to reward myself with a glass of my Dragon's Blood Tropicale. Friends dropped off some apples, so I'll have to plot what to do with those, too. And that was after a full day of work.

 

[Venatorscribe]

7 mile run this morning. While it was a relatively cool 72 degrees, the humidity was 99%. Brutal!

Our deck is about done being 'rehabbed'. While that's been going on, I decided my ~9 year old Weber Performer deserves a makeover. Got a new work table and new wheels for it, so I might put them on today. Pics to come later, of course. I also need to bottle the Blanc de Noir LR.

Later on, fishing at the Izaak Walton League w/ the Scouts, followed by a hot dog and marshmallow roast.

Hmm. I think I might go and buy a dog and call it ' seven miles '.

 

[Venatorscribe]

It's getting towards the end of winter in my Hemisphere. So - today - it was time to prep my feijoa cider (pineapple guava) that I fermented last autumn. I need to get it into bottles and trigger the secondary fermentation in order to quaff away in the sun over Christmas and New Year. Busy time.

 

[Boatboy24]

8 miles this morning. Now off to run a couple errands. After lunch, @mainshipfred is forcing me to drink wine.

 

[mainshipfred]

8 miles this morning. Now off to run a couple errands. After lunch, @mainshipfred is forcing me to drink wine.

It was an ever, ever so slight twist of the arm.

 

[Ajmassa]

2nd annual Day trip crabbing in LBI.
Getting on the water right before the peak of high tide. Think it’s gonna be a good day

 

[pgentile]

2nd annual Day trip crabbing in LBI.
Getting on the water right before the peak of high tide. Think it’s gonna be a good day

Bunker, chicken necks or killies?

 

[jgmann67]

Low impact cardio, yard work, making sangria and playing cards.

 

[Ajmassa]

Planned on chicken. Ended up with bunker. What’s killies?

 

[pgentile]

Usually bought or caught and used live. They are small

 

[mainshipfred]

8 miles this morning. Now off to run a couple errands. After lunch, @mainshipfred is forcing me to drink wine.

Just had a real nice time with @Boatboy24 sampling and talking about blending. EXCEPT: all he told me was this, this and this would go good with that and so on. I wanted exact percentages. LOL!!!

 

[Mcjeff]

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No fancy clothes needed, all places are resort casual, except the feature restaurant, La Toc, which only requires dress pants and a collared shirt, you could muster that up, I’m sure of it. Full service place for sure. Here’s the bedroom view, doors shut.

My wife and I just booked a week there next March. Wish it was sooner. Enjoy.

 

[Boatboy24]

Just had a real nice time with @Boatboy24 sampling and talking about blending. EXCEPT: all he told me was this, this and this would go good with that and so on. I wanted exact percentages. LOL!!!

I can't give you all my secrets! Those percentages are pretty much personal preference. But with pretty much everything we tasted and everything we thought to blend with, I'd start light - probably with 5-10%, then maybe 15% and 25%. Fine tune from there. On the Merlot, where you need a 30% plus up to get into an 8gal barrel, I'd think twice about being heavy handed on a blend. It's really good on its own.

 

[Boatboy24]

2nd annual Day trip crabbing in LBI.
Getting on the water right before the peak of high tide. Think it’s gonna be a good day

Crabbing is so much fun. Enjoy!

 

[ceeaton]

Crabbing is so much fun. Enjoy!

Especially when you get to eat the crabs! That and the ensuing beer drinking are my favorites.

 

[Ajmassa]

Eh. Not enough keepers for a full dinner. But still a great day regardless. Highlight was not 1 but 2 blowfish caught in the crab traps!
Regardless of only 4 keepers, as long as your catching anything consistently it’s a good day for the kids. (Took our nephew with as well)
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[Johnd]

My wife and I just booked a week there next March. Wish it was sooner. Enjoy.

‘‘Twas quite enjoyable. Feel free to PM me if you want this skinny.

 

[linjanbri]

Finished bottling chilli wine. So proud of it!!!!
started persimmon and strawberry wine - not too sure about this one, also started another batch of lemon wine. divided it into two 30 litre buckets and its not looking very bubbly. Its a bit cold and windy here in South West Rocks, maybe thats the problem?