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Brought these home the other day. I've been wanting the apple crusher for several years, the corn Sheller came along in the deal!

Her other favorite place is the arbor.

No idea as to the variety. I hope to get enough grapes off of it to make a small batch or enough to supplement some other type of fruit for a small batch of wine this fall.

I saw new growth with in a week or two. My vines came from Double A Vineyards.

I was clearing a fence line of unwanted trees and found this grape vine. The vines are at least 25' long. Took some pulling to get them out of a cedar and a shingle oak tree. I put the trellis up this morning, it wasn't there!

What is the proper way to store bottled wine? Laying down or standing up? Recently I've opened wine that I've purchased and kept for around one year and two of them have been bad. One, I first noticed because the cork came out with almost no effort. These are wines that I've tasted at...

Planning on making some watermelon wine. Tried to find someone last year to but couldn't so gave away and ate 65 melons. This year it's going to be different! Going to try and do it myself. I've started 130 Crimson Sweet, 17 giant Carolina's not shown and 20 pumpkins for my wife.

20 miles South West of Kirksville. Maybe 40 miles south of Iowa. Yesterday there was bud break on the Reliance, Mars and Concord. Bud swell on the 550 Cayuga White we planted a week and a half ago. The Cayuga White and Vidal Blanc that we planted last year don't show any sign of bud...

You make me feel a little bit better. Mine are not either.

Made a woven wire unroller today. I have 10 200 foot rolls to install.

Couldn't sleep this morning so I got up and made myself useful. Cinnamon Rolls Dough: 2 teaspoons dry yeast 1/4 cup white sugar 2 cups warm water or whey 4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup powdered milk 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 cup lard To Make Sweet Dough: In a...

We had oven fries and a green salad with it but fried potatoes, potato chips, potato salad, cole slaw would be good. If you don't like spicy, reduce the black pepper!

Two hours, maybe a few more minutes. They were worth the time.

Thanks for the chart.

Made Kraut Bierocks for lunch today. These meat-and-kraut-mixture filled sweet rolls make a great main dish, and are also great as a snack. They reheat well, so leftovers are also great! Original recipe makes 10 servings 1 1/2 (.25 ounce) packages active dry yeast 1/4 cup white sugar 2...