For me, August is the month to re-commit to all the projects and goals I've set for myself. Why? Well, you see, I turned another year older on July 30th and always take the time to re-evaluate the past year of my life. So here is what I reflected back on...
1- I retired from military service after 21 years.
2- I finished a novel for NaNoWriMo 2006.
3- I finished a movie script for ScriptFrenzy 2007.
4- I have begun to enjoy the word of Private Dental Practice.
5- We did a great spooky house for Halloween.
6- The Chargers did well in football... until the playoffs.
7- The Padres won the NL West.
8- The Tigers played in the World Series.
9- My kids made me the proudest father in San Diego. They're all smart, honest and hard working and the best kids a dad could ask for.
10- I've started back into our winemaking hobby.
11- The front yard and back yard are coming around and looking good.
12- I'm exercising every day by taking a one hour walk of about 4-5 miles.
13- I've become a better cook- by necessity.
14- I have begun several book projects and am making progress on them.
I've set some goals:
a- Travel to Europe for our 25th wedding anniversary in 2009.
b- Complete NaNoWriMo again this fall.
c- Do a great Pirates themed Halloween.
d- Lose 10 pounds by Christmas.
e- Begin running and run in a 5K race by Christmas.
So that's what happens when I enter August... for me it's New Year's Resolution Time!
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Wine Making
It's about time to rack my wines again and stabilize them. That amounts to siphoning them into clean jugs and then adding sugar, sulfite, Potassium sorbate and glycerin to sweeten and stabilize it before bottling.
I just ordered the famed Portguese bottle corker yesterday. It will make one man bottling possible. Also I purtchased Root Beer and Birch Beer extracts to make some more soda pop. We've tried Ginger Beer and love it! It really has some zip to it... more like Vernors Ginger Ale than anything else. But it's got BITE.
Soon it will be time to start washing and sterilizing wine bottles and getting the old labels off and all scrubbed up.
Projects for the future:
Wine Kit with grapes (5 gal)
Elderberry (5 gal)
The last time we racked wine it turned out very good, I mean we tasted them and they were pretty good.
I just ordered the famed Portguese bottle corker yesterday. It will make one man bottling possible. Also I purtchased Root Beer and Birch Beer extracts to make some more soda pop. We've tried Ginger Beer and love it! It really has some zip to it... more like Vernors Ginger Ale than anything else. But it's got BITE.
Soon it will be time to start washing and sterilizing wine bottles and getting the old labels off and all scrubbed up.
Projects for the future:
Wine Kit with grapes (5 gal)
Elderberry (5 gal)
The last time we racked wine it turned out very good, I mean we tasted them and they were pretty good.
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