Mostly Sucessful...
So I had my list of things I wanted to accomplish this weekend. I got many, although not all, of them done.
The big kicker was the Mead. 3x 5-Gallon jugs, which yield 24 wine (750ml) bottles each, is 72 bottles of mead. With the assistance of
midnightesper and
dragontologist, it was a fairly painless process to bottle them all quickly and efficiently, and only a minor mess was made when the siphon hose slipped momentarily and a bit of mead got on the floor. Labels are on order, along with kits for the next few batches to make.
Other than the alcohol, I did a lot of other things. The other big feel-good was cleaning up the yard. Most of my back yard is a hill, covered in woods, that is pretty much impassable / unusable. Over the past few years, it seems, trash of various sorts has built up, been dumped, or blown into that area, and it was becoming an eyesore. I would look out at my yard from my bathroom every morning as I was showering, and instead of seeing beautiful trees and landscape, I'd see trash. It wasn't literally a landscape of crap, but when there's a bright orange plastic thingie in the middle of your still-wintery yard, it kind of draws attention to itself...
The prize find, though, was a completely full garbage bag that looks like it had missed the can (or fallen out) and buried itself under some leaves. It must have been at least 2 years old, since we moved in a year and a half ago, now. All in all, I filled 1 and a half industrial trash cans with junk I found back there, and there's more I still have not put in the cans, mostly because it's bulk and won't fit. My yard now looks like a yard, and I can take pride in it again, and feel like it's MY home.
The last things I did not get to do were laundry, and picking up exploded LARP gear. Since KR is this weekend coming up, both will be happening before the end of the week.
The big kicker was the Mead. 3x 5-Gallon jugs, which yield 24 wine (750ml) bottles each, is 72 bottles of mead. With the assistance of
midnightesper and
dragontologist, it was a fairly painless process to bottle them all quickly and efficiently, and only a minor mess was made when the siphon hose slipped momentarily and a bit of mead got on the floor. Labels are on order, along with kits for the next few batches to make.
Other than the alcohol, I did a lot of other things. The other big feel-good was cleaning up the yard. Most of my back yard is a hill, covered in woods, that is pretty much impassable / unusable. Over the past few years, it seems, trash of various sorts has built up, been dumped, or blown into that area, and it was becoming an eyesore. I would look out at my yard from my bathroom every morning as I was showering, and instead of seeing beautiful trees and landscape, I'd see trash. It wasn't literally a landscape of crap, but when there's a bright orange plastic thingie in the middle of your still-wintery yard, it kind of draws attention to itself...
The prize find, though, was a completely full garbage bag that looks like it had missed the can (or fallen out) and buried itself under some leaves. It must have been at least 2 years old, since we moved in a year and a half ago, now. All in all, I filled 1 and a half industrial trash cans with junk I found back there, and there's more I still have not put in the cans, mostly because it's bulk and won't fit. My yard now looks like a yard, and I can take pride in it again, and feel like it's MY home.
The last things I did not get to do were laundry, and picking up exploded LARP gear. Since KR is this weekend coming up, both will be happening before the end of the week.