I had a great weekend off last week, but more about that later. For now let me tell about my new cold brew coffee thingamajig! Cold brewed coffee is something of a trend at the moment, so I probably don’t … Continue reading
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The trip out to Colorado inspired me to restart my brewing activities in San Jose. I installed one of those conical bottom fermenters in my cellar, and I put a brass outlet box in my kitchen floor but without the … Continue reading
I’ve been back for a week now, and yet I still haven’t managed to post a single thing about my trip out to Colorado. I spent a whole week out there this month, and I was so busy having a … Continue reading
This weekend was sort of hit-and-miss up at the barn project. Saturday was not a very successful day; I had trouble getting all the materials which I was looking for and I spent much of the day shopping. I did … Continue reading
After a flurry of activity this weekend adjusting the chemistry of the grapes and getting everything “just so”, the wine is calmly fermenting down in my cellar. It looks a bit messy, but it’s supposed to be that way. It … Continue reading
A while back I placed an order for 200 pounds of 2014 Zinfandel grapes, and yesterday I got the call that the vineyard is harvesting this week and that the grapes will be available for me to pick up at … Continue reading
Despite my glacial progress, the condo is shaping up nicely. I cleaned up a bunch of paint stuff today which I am done using, put up window treatments and a vertical blind, installed a new thermostat, and put most of … Continue reading
It may have occurred to my devoted blog audience, all two of you, to wonder what has become of the condo that I used to own after I bought my fixer-upper house back in September. The answer is that I … Continue reading
In other, non-barn news, I got my motorcycle running again. I had a bit of an adventure in trying to get a good battery for it; the first one they gave me was defective and the second one didn’t include … Continue reading
I haven’t had any blog updates recently. There was this big winter solstice holiday in there that kept me a little busy, but I did manage to decorate the house a bit and someone put a train around one of … Continue reading