Monthly Archives: May 2012
Mother’s Day Bottling Party
On May 13, we invited friends over for a bottling party. This is a wine, made from a mix of the 2010 and 2011 harvest. We are learning more about making wine. We used pectic enzyme to eliminate pectic haze. We added tannin to try to get that pucker. It still is a fairly … Continue reading
Growing tomatoes
I should just give up. For years I try to grow tomatoes from seed with varying degrees of success. In recent years, I have had more failures than successes. But this was the year it was all going to turn around. I started my seeds in February, earlier than ever, so they would have plenty … Continue reading
Patience and Perseverance
Last week, I bought a skein of wonderful, soft, shiny, dyed tencel yarn. It was a spontaneous purchase. The local yarn shop owner offered to wind the skein into a ball using the shop ballwinder. I agreed. That was the first mistake. Such slippery yarn should never be balled using a ball winder. While winding … Continue reading
