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I sure wish you were all having lunch with us today! I'm not having anything fancy...just plain hobbit fare. Roast beef with little onions from our garden, rice (we buy it in 25# bags, as is our habit), and little crook neck squashes, sliced up and sauteed in butter. A tomato and bell pepper salad (from garden). Tea and milk.

That lunch sounds delicious. If Overtaxed can hurry up with the wine...

When my daughter was very small she once got into some fire ants. I don't think she recovered for a day or two, though it's been so long, I don't remember exactly.

The first part is a lot like making sourdough starter. I mush the grapes up and add a syrup to it. I could add yeast to it, but there's enough yeast on them already (the whitish "sheen" on the outside of the grape.) Then add water to cover and put a linen towel over it. Stir it down every day for about 3 days until all the sugar is worked out. (Tastes really dry.) Then I strain it through an old pillow case, add more syrup and bring to volume in a glass jug and put a water seal on it and let it bubble. I adjust the sugar and water according to how many grapes I have (1 gallon of grapes = 1 gallon wine.)

Lunch sounds good! Why didn't the invite come after I put the ribs on the grill?