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[justbugged]

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CGG - I remember you saying right after we invited ourselves over that November might be a particularly busy month for you and beyond that I wasn't sure if folks would be busy with holiday stuff. So we haven't really narrowed it down yet. You weren't rude at all! PM me to let me know when is best for you and we'll go from there!

Good point! I tend to forget that other people are busy with holiday stuff. I have never celebrated the holidays, and so I don't always remember that everyone else can be super busy.

 

[SadieSue]

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I made my own wine while in California.
FiL has 2 rows of Pinot Noir, about 40 plants, now will be 12 years old, perfect.
We had white wine grapes at our place.
We made some awsome wine!!!!!!!
I still have to get some "Island " vines here...cannot remember the whole name, island something, that grow well here.
Unfortunately, have not found a red wine grape that likes this wet cool clime.
If anyone knows, please PM me, I want to get them planted THIS fall.

My dad used to make wines. He made a huckleberry wine once that he still raves about. I remember being a kid and picking Dandelions at Perrigan Lake Park for my dad to make wine. Not sure hwo that ever turned out.

I'll bet your Dad's huckleberry wine was good! Our customers make wine from everything, besides grapes. Lots of folks buying supplies for apple wine, hard apple cider, pear wine, blackberry, cherry, huckleberry, strawberry, rhubarb. One older lady makes dandelion wine every year and has entered in the fair. We've even had some tomato wine makers and onion wine makers. They use the onion infused wine for cooking... I'd love to try some of that one day, but I don't think I want to make it. The shop smells so good right now with big fermenting buckets full of crushed grapes that are getting juicier every day. On Monday and Tuesday this week we'll be pressing those grapes to get all the beautiful, garnet colored juice out of them, leaving us with some really nice grape skin cakes. Those can be used to make grappa if you have a still, (you know, to make "fuel) or they are wonderful just to spread in your garden.

 

[pamir]

ok since I came late to this what is the dinner you guys all have planned?

Angela

 

[justbugged]

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My dad used to make wines. He made a huckleberry wine once that he still raves about. I remember being a kid and picking Dandelions at Perrigan Lake Park for my dad to make wine. Not sure hwo that ever turned out.

I'll bet your Dad's huckleberry wine was good! Our customers make wine from everything, besides grapes. Lots of folks buying supplies for apple wine, hard apple cider, pear wine, blackberry, cherry, huckleberry, strawberry, rhubarb. One older lady makes dandelion wine every year and has entered in the fair. We've even had some tomato wine makers and onion wine makers. They use the onion infused wine for cooking... I'd love to try some of that one day, but I don't think I want to make it. The shop smells so good right now with big fermenting buckets full of crushed grapes that are getting juicier every day. On Monday and Tuesday this week we'll be pressing those grapes to get all the beautiful, garnet colored juice out of them, leaving us with some really nice grape skin cakes. Those can be used to make grappa if you have a still, (you know, to make "fuel) or they are wonderful just to spread in your garden.

Let me know if you have extra skins. I would love to spread them in the garden, though grape skin cakes sounds like a very interesting thing. I will try just about anything once.
I would rather have garlic wine to cook with. I think that the idea of using it to cook scallops sounds very very tasty.

 

[justbugged]

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You aren't any later than the rest of us. I think that CL was way ahead of the rest of us.

We are having a Potluck dinner or lunch on December 3rd at the chicken show in Chehalis. There is a sign up list at this link. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7839926#p7839926

Please feel free to join us at the show. If you need a place to spend the night, there are some of us that are more than willing to lend you a bed. I have a day bed with a trundle, and your own bathroom for the night. All you would need is to like dogs.

 

[SadieSue]

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such an adorable video of her laughing! We lived with a humidifier in our DS room...especially in the winter.

Also - for sickness, colic, teething, etc. I relied heavily (and still rely at times) on Hyland's Homeopathic remedies. The colic was awesome for upset tummies or when they are just not happy in general; teething tablets were awesome, and we STILL use the cold tabs with our 9 year old. http://www.hylands.com

For colic I always used Woodward's Gripe water. I had to get it in Canada. I'm not sure that you can still get the original formula. It does help with a upset tummy though. The gripe water is an English thing.

My Italian grandmother (and most everyone else related to us) always made bayleaf tea and put it in the baby bottles or when we were older gave it to us in a cup for tummy troubles. I was trying to find how to spell the Italian word for it on the internet. My grandmother pronounced it "Lowra" and apparently it is the very same thing as the "gripe water". It must be a good thing as it has crossed various ethnic cultures. I do remember it making me feel better when my stomach was upset.

 

[pamir]

oh I wish I could but that is finals week, unless anyone wants to stand in for me and score well on Psych Algebra and Creative writing (yeah I didn't think so I am the only one crazy enough to do that LOL)

Angela



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You aren't any later than the rest of us. I think that CL was way ahead of the rest of us.

We are having a Potluck dinner or lunch on December 3rd at the chicken show in Chehalis. There is a sign up list at this link. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7839926#p7839926

Please feel free to join us at the show. If you need a place to spend the night, there are some of us that are more than willing to lend you a bed. I have a day bed with a trundle, and your own bathroom for the night. All you would need is to like dogs.

 

[SadieSue]

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I found a headlamp at a consignment store yesterday. I can do things to the chickens in the dark now. That came out sounding kind of freaky.

Or kinky! LOL

They have a light on the inside I wanted it light outside so I could throw them out as I got them dosed. I didn't want them in the dark. Headlamp is not a bad idea for the nights I get home late and still need to feed horses and check on chickens. I usually hold a flashlight under my arm but can be very inconvenient and inefficient.

At Lowe's the other day I saw hunter's camo caps with an LED light on the bill for about $20. I never considered that it could come in useful for rustling up your chickens after dark. Huh. Interesting idea.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

I mentioned Harold and Betty Billmeyer as a source of duck eggs and organic chicken eggs- and then heard the next week or so that she was ill. Only three or four people left at the market now who were vendors when I was, and none to whom I'm as affiliated as I am to the Billmeyers, whose daughter married a Yelm friend who I first met in preschool.

Together they were pioneers in small-scale commercial poultry raising, and her presence will be missed.

It's a little disturbing to me to think that I am much older now than Betty was when I first met her; she'd changed very little until last year.

 

[SadieSue]

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Or maybe you and I will just keep our bottle wrapped in a paper bag and go out to the car for a beverage break every once in a while...

Hhhmmmm......... I think we may need to discuss this behind the scenes. It has very interesting possibilities.

But I do know that I would rather stay out of trouble, and don't want to offend anyone, just for wanting to sip on some nectar of the gods.

Oh JB - I would never actually do anything that might get me in trouble. Too many years of Catholic grade school humiliations for any little old thing turned me into a girl that tries hard to stay out of trouble. It's mortifying when trouble seems to find me anyway.