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We're both home from work today, ugly freezing rain. I may not go in tomorrow either, the way things look. I bet Northern and Jack aren't out and about much either. I went up town to the grocery, and the main streets are okay but it wasn't fun driving. We're sampling a bottle of Hannabarn's ice...

I found this bottle deal at Target last night. $1.74 a bottle. Originally $3.49. There were only 2 left. I'm pretty pumped. I'm drinking the soft drink that come in the bottle. Have to get that out of the way before I can really use it...

Happy birthday, Dixie! Hope it's wonderful and not too rainy!

Jeff H, Happy Birthday to you too! I have no cakes today... Palace kitchen being renovated and all...

Hey Trashy! Happy birthday to you! The palace kitchens are completely out of commission at this time, so I went trashin' for a cake! Hope you've had a wonderful day!

Work on the palace kitchen is in full swing. So far, nothing horrible has happened, and for that we are very grateful. Old cabinets Everything has been removed from the kitchen. Our house is a maze of furniture and boxes. But it's for the good! The flooring guys are here right now and...

Happy Birthday, Stinkie! The royal bakers got your cake done before I started back on dismantling the palace kitchens. Have a great day!

Happy birthday, Janet! Hope you have great weather and can enjoy the out of doors on your birthday.

Happy birthday! Hope you get to go outside and enjoy this spring day. No one is to start on the cake until the birthday girl cuts it.

I made a present for Bert today. For free. The price was right. I made him a cork humidor. The main vessel is a plastic container that held potato salad from the grocery deli. The middle container that holds the sanitizer containerhad jelly or something like that in it. The small jar that holds...

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On Tuesday, in celebration of it being Tuesday and finding a frozen pizza in the freezer for dinner, I selected one of the wines from my horse trading at WineStock. Smurfe! WOW!!! Your Amarone is to die for!!!! Holy wine glasses, Batman! This stuff pours thick and dark. It's verging on black...

On Saturday we met Hannabarn (Barney) and his lovely wife at the Moccasin Bar in Hayward, WI. We had a lovely time chatting about wine, building houses, and all sorts of things. We exchanged some wines, too! Thought you might like to see our smiling faces.

Happy Birthday to BovineWines! I got your cake baked early this morning. We're ground blizzarding out there, so there's no where to go but inside! Happy Birthday and wish you many more! Have some cake for breakfast!

Happy birthday, Motomike! I was up late last night intructing the palace baker how to decorate your cake. He still spelled your name wrong...

Last August I went to a scrapbooking/cardmaking weekend in Wonderful Wisconsin and there was a thrift sale there. All sorts of people brought in great papercraft tools that they no longer needed. I admit that I spent more than I should have, but one of the great buys I got was a Milwaukee heat...

It happened! It finally happened! We had our first meeting of the Kit & Country Wines of Warrenon Sunday. I'm so excited! It was an impromptu meeting that started at 7:30 that night.We didn't know about it until we got home shortly before 5. We managed to unpack from the weekend and rack 2...

Jack and Nico, Happy birthday to you both! Find some wine and have dessert!

This morning we started a choke cherry wine. First we had to steam the choke cherries that had been in the freezer since summer. Aren't they pretty?! We're making a 5 gallon batch and used mostly honey as our sugar. (Basswood honey) Bert added some dry, light malt extract and he's...

Bert is starting a batch of sugar beet wine. I am not fond of the smell of cooking sugar beets and have firmly suggeted that cooking them in the house is not something that would please me. He's set up out in the shop for cooking purposes. He assembled the usual cast of characters...