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Day 118 Bottling Day! (Again) ​ Green Apple Riesling and a White Zin

Day 117 (Scooter Ride Day!) Lockport Bridge, Williams County, Ohio. This is a Modern Howe Truss Bridge with laminated timber. No steel beams were used. Built in 1999 which replaced a boring bridge. It was originally a Howe Truss Bridge, but that was removed in 1919 when the boring bridge...

Day 116 Pool Opening (Ewww)

Day 115 A Blurry Cat

Day 114 The wine fridge is full, all the wine bottle spaces in our cabinets are full, the pantry is full. I've also commandeered the top two rows of our giant bookcase, and that will hold 240 bottles. I guess I better start thinking about making a real wine cellar...

Day 113 Wow. This thread turned into a big downer... Here's a flower for everyone!

Here's the Moscato all bottled up. The cloudy one in the front without a cork will cold stabilize tonight and the sediment will drop to the bottom and my wife will drink it up tomorrow morning when she gets home from work. The rest are going to take a nap until July/August. ...and I guess my...

Day 112 Seems like endless work in the "winery"! The 1 gallon jug, and the 5 gallon carboy on the left is Skeeter Pee in secondary fermentation, and the 6 gallon carboy on the right is Moscato. I was going to bulk age the Moscato, but then I realized last night I need that carboy! So, it's...

Day 111 Well, I was going to take a photo of the Kildeer eggs, but just before I was going to push the button, the dog (Not our dog) stepped on them... I'm not too happy right now. Here's some flowers instead.

Day 110 I need a longer lens... One very unhappy Killdeer. Haven't found her nest yet, but her behavior tells me there's one somewhere. I'll have to watch her from inside sometime.

Day 109 Our sprawling metropolis at night! Kinda purply out today...

Day 108 Well... I am now in cahoots with the new winery just a mere mile or so down the road. I'm getting all their used bottles, for free! Best price ever! Here's 166 more bottles I now need to de-label. If purchased new, it'd be 250 bucks. Lovin' it! I'll be using 120 of these on the...

Day 107 (Tivo!) Lets just pretend this day didn't happen... k? Castle, we all love him! ​(I'll just keep this one small... It's really bad!)

It's ok, 'cause it's Skeeter Pee! ​...and it takes a LONG time to collect 6 gallons of skeeter pee!

Day 106 Today in the winery (AKA: The Pantry) Front to back, six gallon carboys (30 bottles each!) Green Apple Reisling (Secondary Ferment) White Zinfandel (Fining) Moscato (Bulk Aging) ...and in the Primary Fermenter (the bucket) is Skeeter Pee! Just pitched the yeast into the pee a couple...

Day 105 Sometimes I think I have way too many hobbies. Spent all my time after work, working on the wine. Here's the Green Apple Reisling being racked to secondary fermentation. ...and this is the yeast slurry I saved from the Green Apple Reisling. This will get pitched into the Skeeter...

Day 104 Spent the vast majority of today working on vehicles. So here's a shot of my ceiling fan remote. Exciting, I know...

Ok, here's a few more from my outing today. He be jammin! She be jammin! The baby grand.

Oh... I forgot this one. This seems to be the new trend in photography, as I saw this way more times than I think I should have seen it.

Day 103 International Festival at The University of Toledo. The official Town Crier for Sylvania, Ohio. Michael Lieber is 1 of 13 Town Criers in America and 1 of 350 in the world! At work Yang Kun Song, Conductor, Toledo International Youth Orchestra. Though many people were confusing...