What a beautiful weekend filled with awesome activities. Friday night, we bottled two batches of wine. I covered yesterday in this post. As for today: this morning, I finished knitting Jake’s hat; I got in some more gardening (my hope is to get the pond opened up tomorrow, so I …
We spent yesterday painting Jake’s room. He wanted the walls painted turquoise and gray so we obliged. I hope we don’t have to paint them white when we put the house up for sale in a few years. As we were painting (a chore that I don’t particularly enjoy), I …
I’m attempting the cheese thing again this year. I say “attempting” because I haven’t been overly impressed with my previous attempts. Yesterday, I made parmesan cheese. I tried doing the same thing last year, but parmesan is supposed to age without wax and mine got all moldy and was rendered …
I always thought (well, not always, but since I’ve been canning) it would be cool to make grape jelly, but I didn’t have a source for the grapes…until yesterday. One of my Facebook friends posted that she had some extra concord grapes growing in her yard and they were up for grabs. …
I’ve canned a number of items so far this season. I always hope to do more, but summer is a real time crunch for me and canning is pretty time consuming. I’ll probably squeeze in a few more things before I run out of vegetables, but here’s what I’ve done …