Wine Update

Our sixth month wine update. The weekend before the super bowl Lori and I went to check on our wine. The purpose of this visit was to "rack" the wine. Racking is just a term to remove the wine from the barrel and clean the barrel of all the sediment that is formed in the wine process (ex: dead yeast cells) Since there are so many barrels and too little time, the facility demonstrated the racking process with random barrels and we were told if we found our specific barrel that we could take a little taste. In the pictures take notice of the happy faces of the tasters! So, now we are anxiously awaiting our next visit in August or September when we will bottle and label the finished product. Stay tuned

And more snow

As you can see my ornamental grasses look like a very big funnel cake. (wasn't easy to dig out)

Ok now to the "what am I" Rob Cocker guessed it right with "Wart" here is a bigger picture so you can see the other two that I didn't include with the 1st picture.


I said I wouldn't say who the foot belongs to, but I will say this, he doesn't live in any of these states
al, ak, az, ar, ca, co, ct, de, fl, ga, hi, id, il, in, ia, ks, ky la, me, ma, mi, mn, ms, mo, mt, ne, nv, nh, nj, nm, ny, nc, nd, oh, ok, or, pa, ri, sc, sd, tn, tx, ut, vt, va, wa, wv, wi, wy.

wow snow day

In the first picture can you find my neighbor's car?
Second picture is the result of snow blower plus wind gust = frozen face
Third picture self explanatory.

Don't worry I will update the Guess what I am by Monday and our wine making.

Everyone enjoy your snow day.

Guess what i am

Interesting thing I came across tonight, Can anyone guess what I am? Post a comment if you think you know what I am!

Lots of Snow

Not even sure how much snow we got, however, our deck is completely covered (almost hip high). Here is a night shot of our house, hard to see the lights, but you get the idea.

snow day

The Weather men and woman got it right. Just after 3 or 4 hours of snow we have about 4 or 5 inches! Here is a picture from the security camera of the front and back of my house, I will add another picture before it gets dark to compare. Have fun in the snow and if you have to, drive safe!

Making wine for real

As many of you know Lori and I have been making wine at home for many years, however, the reds that we make have not been all that exiting. So, we have decided to up our ante and make it at a facility close by called the Cherry Hill Wine Room.
At the wine room they provide all of the wine making equipment and ingredients (crusher, destemmer, wine press, yeast, grapes, etc.) This year we are making a combination wine called a Trilogy (cab. sav., merlot, and cab. franc) After the grapes were crushed and destemmed we pumped them into this giant container were the yeast will be added for fermentation; here Lori is stirring it up.