I bottled a couple of boozes this weekend: I fortified the dry seville orange mead with vanilla-orange instead of carbonating it, and bottled it like that. It added a lively fresh layer, I think it turned out ok. I also bottled the redcurrant wine, which is basically delicious juice-tasting.

I have an unknown port and a plum dessert wine upstairs to ( Read more... )

I love that feeling when a hobby circles around and feeds into another hobby.

F'rinstance, farming --> excess produce --> preserving --> booze --> distilled stuff
farming --> fertility and weed control --> extra eggs --> preserving

distilled stuff + eggs = advocaat and aged eggnog

It just feels good

Okay. I've been avoiding writing about this because writing makes it true, but: basically the chimney in my house is failing. That is, the system which provides my home with heat cheaply and effectively is not real safe to run right now. When I bought the house I knew the wood stove was relatively new; what I didn't know or guess was that the ( Read more... )

Tasted and bottled some booze the other day. It's been quite awhile ( Read more... )

This weekend I haven't gone anywhere; not out of town, not to Dave's place (Dave is out of town), not yet to work. Instead I started yoga again and spent some time feeling like I belong in my home, like my space is my own ( Read more... )