One of the things that has been keeping me so busy of late is the vineyard. Remember the vineyard? Twenty Norton grape vines I planted several springs back. I’m making my first batch of wine this year, about 10 gallons. It’s really an experimental batch; I’m learning as I go. I’ve learned that I already have made several mistakes. I almost hope the wine is awful, because making wine is a lot of work and bother. I wouldn’t have to do it again! However, it’ll be several months before we know anything for sure. More on this.
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Hoohah! Have to share “hairy headless creature” grazing me in bed as I went to sleep last night. Came hurtling across my body and landed on other side of me, scaring the heck out of me. It was the hair that tipped off: fat cat leaping from window sill and not quite making it across large object in his way.
Arlo, try sleeping with four cats and a small dog! Each claims 1/4 of bed space, leaving dog and me in middle.
Love, Jackie
I hope you have better luck than Roger Fox (http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics/2014/08/19)
Oh look, and his wife is wearing spaghetti straps too on tank top!
I happen to think Foxtrot and Bill Amend is one of best comics out there (but I had not read todays, thank you!) It is actually VERY well drawn. Well drawn comics does not require it be physically drawn as “realistic” portrayal.
Having been over 25 years in wine imports sales and member of lots of wine drinking groups, needless to say we had friends make their own wine. Usually by bringing in a ton or two of grapes from somewhere else. And yes, some stomped them.
Love, Jackie
Used to make my own beer, a couple of decades ago, because it was fun and I could make better beer for less than I could buy it. Never tried to make wine, because I never figured I could do better than the pros for the money. Don’t drink much beer any more, and the plethora of good microbrews are better now than I used to make anyway…
RIP, Don Pardo. Who will now tell us what we’ve won?
Umm. Merlot.
Umm. Spaghetti.
Umm. Spaghetti-strap tank tops.
My only experience with home-made vino? A retired dentist who used to occasionally give me a bottle of his product. I recall that it was quite good, but he said production took place in a shed out back, as his wife had banned it from the house due to the mess and the smell.
If your wine does turn out well, just come back to the blog. We have a few good whiners here! 🙂
Ghost: I think an awful lot of things are tacky, from spaghetti straps to tube tops to low-cut jeans. But, then, I am an old prude, as I am often told. Short skirts are fine and let me show off my best features, but those horrible short shorts are cut so that the first thing anybody looks at isn’t the woman’s legs, but their crotch. I do it to, just in horror. Do they really think that looks good? I am quite sure they do. My friends don’t wear them, with one exception, but we all think she doesn’t have any taste, in clothes or men.
Jackie: I think Bill Amend can be very funny, or very annoying. But I still say he can’t draw.. Talk about all the characters just having one face!
And on a brighter note, nobody here seems to read one of my very favorite webcomix, Mr. Boffo. So, here’s a link: http://www.mrboffo.com/ I laughed out loud today so hard that people were looking strangely at me.
Norton, my favorite. The official grape of the state of Missouri. I hope it turns out well for you Mr. Johnson. Yes, wine making can be a pain but there’s nothing more satisfying than a buzz from your own homemade inebriant.
Lily, I agree with you about those fashions you mentioned, to the extent that they are all looks that not just anyone can (or should try to) pull off. But as you say about your short skirts, if it looks good on one, and/or emphasizes one’s best feature(s), I say one should “have at it”.
That said, I have seen some truly epic short-short fails. 🙂
Ghost, I have seen a pic of Pamela Anderson in those shorts, in white, yet, and she looked awful. IMHO, of course.
Looks like Arlo was in trouble, seeing he was sleeping alone except for Luddie.
Lily, IMHO, pretty much everything Pamela Anderson has is a fail, even the parts she had modified later.
Robb, perhaps Janis had gone to the bathroom those “few times”, making it even more difficult for “the cat” to sleep. Or perhaps Jimmy was running close to deadline and saved time by not putting Janis in bed with Arlo. (He didn’t show her at the table, either.)
Meanwhile, over on 9CL, I wonder if Martine has made Krujewel’s gun discharge yet. Guess I’ll find out next Monday.
Hi Mr Johnson.
Making wind does not have to be labor intensive. I have made well over 7,000 bottles of wine from kits. And they are quite good. Here is a link to a wine-making forum that i sometimes post in: http://www.winepress.us/forums/index.php?/index It can’t hurt to try it. Ok, maybe it can. It is addictive.
Russ Suereth
New Port Richey, FL Formerly in Hingham, MA
Hi Mr Johnson.
Making wine does not have to be labor intensive. I have made well over 7,000 bottles of wine from kits. And they are quite good. Here is a link to a wine-making forum that i sometimes post in: http://www.winepress.us/forums/index.php?/index It can’t hurt to try it. Ok, maybe it can. It is addictive.
Russ Suereth
New Port Richey, FL Formerly in Hingham, MA
Maybe you should go check out today’s non-annoying Classic Foxtrot: http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrotclassics#.U_OZSvldWmA
If it’s not awful and you didn’t stop the grapes with your feet, can I get a bottle? I know shipping wine to Mississippi is illegal, but I don’t know about shipping it out.
For Ghost: http://www.buzzfeed.com/ianxcarlos/the-most-buffy-to-ever-buffy
My Dad came from the Tuscany region of the “old country”. He made his own wine up till his last couple of years on this earth. I never cared for it as a kid growing up but I sure wish I had some of it now. Oh, and no stomping. He had all the proper tools, crusher, press, etc.
Gee! Today we have two links to the same Foxtrot…
For those of you who follow 9CWL, Martine didn’t lie; a Luger is not a crew-fired weapon.
Posted in yesterday’s comments. Haven’t done that in a while. Not worth repeating here.
More storms headed our way. This time I plan to leave a bit earlier in case we get more flooding. Praying that it will not be anything like it was last Monday.
I’ll say one for you and your family, Steve
Jerry, I have done that, usually when I have posted early, before JJ has updated. Makes me feel silly