Winemaking with Delina

We've been working the area around the bar. Here the chickens do their part, finishing up where I dug out bermuda.

Ricky C wheeled in several barrows of mulch from the giant pile he donated and Rick spreads it around.

Tuesday night we went over to Delina's to help her rack some wine. Rick washes bottles.

And Delina sterilizes them. Such an appropos chapeau.

Delina works the corking machine. We had to bottle the three gallons in the carboy so we could rack the three one-gallon containers into it.

Rick shows off the finished bottles.

They get ready to siphon.

And voila!

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What We're Eating

The carrots are from the farmer's market, but the cabbage is the first of the season. I made bread and cooked cranberry beans from the market to go with.
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The daphne is just starting to bloom.

Unfortunately, this branch broke on the orange tree. We need to prune it back anyway, and this just proves why.