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Good for her! Thanks for the update K.
Was missing her here but living the dream is better.

Has anyone heard from Winnie at all lately?

Kinda short of two gallons. Just a gallon and a half.
This stuff has an alcohol content that will make your eyes water just by sniffing it. Hope it smooths out...
This is the full one.
A lot of...

Trying my hand at some wine. I have one grape vine but it went nuts this year. About 30lbs of grapes.
Will be moving it from the main fermenter into glass jugs with airlocks today. Been in there for...

Sorry Rick, I'd originally forgotten that instruction and I knew it would be you who'd pounce on it. A bit of a pre-emptive strike.

But I also used to work in a grocery store bake shop while in...

Got my bushel of peaches yesterday. I always forget how many peaches there are in a bushel...
Got most of them canned up, about 2 dozen half pints, and half of those are brandied. That's not quite 4...

Rick, no trouble with flies. But once some get ahead of me and they get over-ripe, the yellow jackets are wicked. And they're drunk. A bad combination.

Still waiting for peaches to come in. I have a crate (about a bushel) of seconds ordered at the orchard. Same for hard pears. Hard pears you can just run through the apple peeler. I want to try...

Every once in a while I look at a failed crop and think, "yep the pilgrims are gonna starve this winter.

Wish my pumpkins would start to run. They are being horribly slow this year. They are in a...

No U-pick places Winnie? Sounds like an opportunity. Though I imagine land is hard to get and who knows about British laws. Here, at least in MA, the farms can't be sued if someone gets hurt at their...

I picked 12 lbs of strawberries last weekend at a U-pick place since my strawberry beds are still small and only put out a couple quarts this year. Made 4 jars of "low sugar" jam and 8 jars of...