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Whole Lot of Wining Going On

So it can be very dangerous to leave a husband at home alone. Yesterday he drove down to Corrado's and dropped some dinero on malolactic bacteria, demijohns, 20 gallons or so of new juice and other assorted wine making equipment.

This was brought on by the wine test we conducted a few days ago.


We had 18 gallons of semi fermented juice that we needed to rack and 5 gallons we needed to bottle. So Bruce labeled each type and we compared colors, clarity, taste and then he went on to combine different amounts of each until he got what he wanted. Oy! He got two 23 liter demijohns so I guess we'll have to invite a large group of friends over when we open it.


So here Bruce is mixing his wines. Who knew you could get a syphon attachment for a hand drill? Really, who thinks of these things? We topped off the bucket of Carignane with some finished Valdespina and then bottled the rest. Another 19 bottles for the wine cellar (a cement basement closet).

His next project is to make some wine storage racks, we are in serious need of legitimate bottle storage.

A hike recently in the Catskills. They had several weeks of below zero temps so the High Falls are very frozen over. Spectacular!

No Time Today

Not a lot of time today so just a few pictures of what I have been making lately and will post on Etsy. Inspired by my first teacher, Stephanie Maddalena, I have been trying to do flowers and other organic shapes.

Today I get my heart health check up at the new Women's Heart Health Center at Valley Hospital. My cholesterol is up but since my HDL's and VLDL's are so off the charts I really don't give a **. Now if I could just get those washboard abs! Oy!

Etsy

In the next day or two, we will be posting a totally new Etsy inventory. Stay tuned.

Letterman Revisited

So here we are!

And we now have tickets to see TATE at the Bowery Ballroom in March as well. Woo hoo!!

The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd!

So as I walked to work this morning I saw the Big Apple Circus box office go by (yes, the box office is a converted 40 ft truck). So sad to see the circus leave town, it signals the total and complete end of the holiday season.

However, this year we got a thrill at the show, Bruce was part of the act!

Since we go every year I suppose the performers get to recognize the regulars, and this year we were once again in the front row. Grandma pulled Bruce out to do a schitck and he was hilarious.



Quite frankly, I was laughing so hard that I had trouble holding the camera.



An actually one of the funniest things was how relieved Max was that it wasn't him that got pulled out.