Of course, I spent time today putting up lights. It was quite an effort. I'll bet it took me 37 seconds, not counting plugging the lights in.
/johnny
Posted on 11/22/2013 12:40:12 PM PST by greeneyes
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So, how complicated is it to make grape wine? Tell me what you know in some detail, don't just say “It's not hard.” Or, “It's hard.” I want to know how you do it. If I order these by Sunday, it's free shipping.
Grape, Marquette
Zone: 5-8
Sun: Full Sun
Height: 4-10 feet
Spread: 8-10 feet
Resistant To: Cold, Disease
Ability to withstand the harmful effects of other organisms (deer, diseases) or adverse growing conditions (drought, heat, cold, wind).
Making good wine? That's hard.
Sugar plus yeast = alcohol.
At a minimum (the Roman way) you need something to crush the grapes (they used slaves) and something to store the fermentable mess in until it ferments. Then you will need something to store it in like amphora or plastic jugs when you decant the wine from the must.
That's the minimum. To make good wine is beyond my scope in instruction. I can make fermentables that will make you drunk, but they might hurt you the next day.
/johnny
Of course, I spent time today putting up lights. It was quite an effort. I'll bet it took me 37 seconds, not counting plugging the lights in.
/johnny
I am amazed you would go to the trouble of such an intricate lighting display. How on earth did you know which strand to cross with another strand to form that extravaganza?
This is the first year I can remember that I didn't have to cook a Thanksgiving dinner. Last year the ultra liberal sister-in-law and husband came and I had baked Cornish Game Hens glazed in Apricot sauce, wild rice, dressing and home made whole cranberry sauce, and cold asparagus dripped on top with honey mustard dressing.
One time some years ago, a gentleman came to our house for dinner and I made those Game Hens and later he said he dripped some of the Apricot sauce on his shirt and later licked it off because it was so fine. I use a French jar of Apricot Preserves and it's not anything like our US thin crappy Apricot Preserves.
So, what did I have this time by myself? A Hungry Man frozen turkey dinner. It even had some cranberry something in one of the sections.
You tinker around building things. Could you build something that crushes grapes, powered by squirrels? I think Marcella could put it to good use.
I bought a Marie Callendar's roasted turkey tv dinner..oh, wait, they don't call them tv dinners anymore. I ate leftover pizza instead, and spent the day unpacking Christmas stuff, and started decorating.
As for the lighting, it's just a natural talent. I took it out of the box, wadded it up, and hung it up on the hook. That's how single guys decorate. ;)
/johnny
Marcella,
My Dad, a tinkerer, built a contraption, aka, squirrel trap/guillotine.
When they went in to get a pecan...oops. I would hide it, break it try to chase the squirrels away from it.
So finally, he quit using it..then he built the squirrel trap drown-o-matic..I also would hide, break, and try to shoo the squirrels away from that one.
/johnny
Yes, and Rube Goldberg it up so it will make a cool youtube video. Also, if your trebouchet launches the squirrels all the way to Marcella's where at a certain altitude, their squirrel parachutes deploy, allowing them to safely land, your video would go viral.
/johnny
Some of my patients on the substance abuse ward told me that William’s Lectric shave, filtered through white bread makes a delightful preprandial apéritif.
I think it’s easier than the whole crushing the grapes thing.
“I bought a Marie Callendar’s roasted turkey tv dinner..oh, wait, they don’t call them tv dinners anymore. I ate leftover pizza instead,”
Don’t you have a husband and have to cook Thanksgiving dinner?
“I had a can of chili and a couple of slices of home-made bread.”
So, you didn’t go to daughter’s house and have a foreign type dinner?
/johnny
After tonight, our temps are going up to our regular “winter” weather, 50s at night. Daytime should be good in the house and not bad at night even in Ft. Worth.
Nope, he's twenty years dead. I stopped cooking Thanksgiving dinner about six years ago when I decided I'd rather spend the day doing Christmas Decorating.
BTW, I packed my growlight back into the box because I had it set up where the Christmas Tree will go tomorrow. So, except for the sweet potato slips rooting in a mason jar in my kitchen, no indoor plant action until January.
It’s 28F here at 8:30 am. I’m not sure if Pak Choy is frost tolerant, but mine looks pretty frozen right now. I forgot to look at the cabbages, swiss chard, and stuff..
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