Note to self: Next time wear gloves. Fortunately only Band-Aid needed.
How Not to Attached a Chainsaw Bar and Chain
Wine Making
Had two batches of wine aging in the secondary while we traveled this summer. Running six gallons of Shiraz through the filter prior to bottling.
Sterilizing the bottles with a sodium metabisulfite solution prior to bottling.
The next two batches fermenting in the primary. The Island Mist is a Coconut Yuzu “chick wine” for the wife, the other is a Sangiovese for yours truly. A happy wife will put up with the clutter and smell of wine making.
Fire Ants
Got into some fire ants when cleaning up the mini-jungle in the back of the lot. They look a lot worse than they are. Had more than a dozen bites on my foot and lower leg. A good dosing of fire ant powder and the nest is no more. Most bugs we let live, but not fire ants.
Border Patrol Helicopter
Nothing has changed where we live.
It’s a Jungle Out There Redux
We thought we had the problem with the back of our lot being overtaken by wild vegetative growth taken care of when we left a few months ago. Wrong. Actually we did have it solved, but didn’t foresee a broken irrigation pipe allowing copious amounts of water to pour out of one of the raised beds. At least it isn’t nearly as bad as the last time. Such is life.
