Okay. I have almost 10 gallons of plum must in primary fermentation. Translation: I have squished nearly 20 gallons of plums into broken, wet masses, and compacted them almost to 10 gallons, and I have set them to fermenting in big plastic buckets bought from restaurants for a dollar, with nutrients and yeast and sugar, and now my kitchen is full ( Read more... )

So it's time to bottle last year's plum wine and to start this year's plym wine. I have picked about 20 gallons of plums, and there's been another couple gallons of nasty yicky rotten ones, and there's still a gallon or two on the tree but they are not going into the wine. The nicest ones I'm setting aside to take to the food bank or something, I ( Read more... )

So I took Emma to the Monterey Scottish Games so she could see what a bagpipe competition is like. It's nothing like I would have thought. No audience: just the judge. You walk around in this little square area that's marked off with streamers, and you play your piece, while the judge reads your music and listens to you, and makes notes on your ( Read more... )