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.

Five Things....

1- Well Tony Gwynn got inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. He deserves the honor. Not only is he a great ballplayer but he is also a first class citizen. One day at my son's school, Tony was sitting on a bench waiting to pick up his daughter. It was the off season and he had just had some knee surgery and was in a walking cast. A bunch of boys saw him, my son included, and recognized him. They went up and asked for an autograph. He could have said no and told them to go away. Instead he took the time to sign each kids math book cover after getting a promise from them that they would try to get an A in the class. He's a class act.

2- The light hitting Padres won today by the score of 18-11. They haven't been scoring a lot of runs lately and I hope this snaps them out of their funk. I just hope that they don't lose their next game 2-0.

3- I just finished "The Attractor Factor" by Joe Vitale. I have tried some of his ideas with surprising results. I hope that by implementing his entire plan that I can reap some serious benefits.

4- Well I'll turn another year older tomorrow. To my ears 48 seems much older than 47. It easily sounds like more than a year - more like 2 or 3. Anyways, whether I want to get another year older or not... I will.

5- BMO has his best friend over for a two week visit. He moved away to Arkansas 1.5 years ago and it's good to have him over. He's grown very tall- almost as tall as me. He's been here nearly a week and it's been great. I know BMO likes having him here.

Five more things...

Whatzupppp?

Here are today's five things...

1- I'm currently re-reading Harry Potter Six (The Half Blood Prince). After benig totally lost at the theater for Harry Potter Five... (it was like a whole new movie to me), it was decided that I should read 6 before I read 7. Funny thing was, my daughter made that suggestion... and guiess who grabbed Book 7?

2- My son's best friend arrived from arkansas today for a two week visit. I love airports.. don't you?

3- It's a BBQ tonight. Chicken and steak kebobs alnog with some baked taters and a salad.

4- Don't mess with Uncle Ted after he's been drinking.

5- BMO broke his skateboard the other day... I guess that's what birthday money is for.