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Looks like we are about to get a nice shower which will turn to ice. Then top it off with a bit of snow. makes life exciting on the roads. Arne.

The annual sandhill crane migration is in full swing. They stop here in central Nebraska to tank up on waste grain and it is their breeding season. I know gasoline is high, but you can drive around and see thousands of them. Take I-80 to Grand Island, go south to Doniphan. Turn right at the...

Just got done fermenting a batch of backyard grape. Some off my catawba vine, some from a friends vine of some kind and another from the neighbors unknown vine. Fermented down rather quickly but had the fermenter upstairs so it took advantage of the warm air. Done fermenting and decided to...

To all of you hope you have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful, just got out of the hospital yesterday. Went in for a heart cath. tuesday. Could not do it because my electrolites were off. Spent the day tuesday watching iv's drip in. Yesterday was a go, all the pics looked great (at...

Anybody ever run across this? My bil keeps bees. Had 5 gal. of crystalized honey and left it in the heater too long. He says it was burnt, but I took the lid off and it smelled ok to me. My thoughts were during fermentation the oders might fall out and I could rack them off. It has...

Like the title says, 25 lb. pie cherries, picked, destoned and in the primary. Lots of picking, 5 Gal. ice cream buckets. Hope the wine is worth it, don't know what caused it but almost every cherry had a bad spot kind of like it had been hit by hail. So far this year we are lucky, the hail...

Hope everybody in the way of this hurricane is safe and well. Our prayers are with you. Arne.

Heading up to Doniphan Nebraska this morning.. The annual Cornhusker High School trapshoot. Over 2000 youngsters shooting. Each compeditor shoots 75 rounds today and 75 tomorrow. Shooting from 16 yards today, handicap tomorrow. Good luck to all the shooters. Arne.

To all my friends on here hope you have safe and happy holidays. Grey skies and cold here but warm and happy inside. Have a taste for me, Cheers. Arne.

Just not a great one for winemaking from my place. Cherries and strawberries both got nipped by frost. Looked like there might be enough cherries for a pie or two but the robins started on them before they were ripe and took all of them. Didn't net them as there were not enough of them to...

31 degrees and it is slowly raining out. 24 hrs. of this now and we have a long day of it still, might get a bit colder and turn to snow this evening. Had a car wreck to go to yesterday and one of the vol. firemen slipped and broke his arm on the way. Pagers went of at 4 a.m. this morning and...

Hope everybody has a safe and Happy New Year. Keep off the roads after :dg . Be around for the good times at next years Wine Making Talk. Take care all, Arne. :f1

Guess I know why Lon named it skeeter pee. Went down yesterday and there was a mosquito floating in the skeeter pee. Guess he died happy and didn't change the flavor of it one bit. I am still wandering around this morning, so guess it didn't hurt me either. Arne.

Just noticed as I was getting ready to log out. Looks like most everybody on here has a birthday today (except me). Anyway, Happy Birthday to everone. Hope you all stay safe and tip a glass for me. Arne.

Been spending a lot of time on the old prayer bones. Have picked almost enough strawberries for a 5 gal. batch. Still a few more to go. My few elderberry bushes are all flowered out. Think there will be plenty for a batch of wine if I decide to make it. Many folks rave about how good it...

My buddys sister sent him a gallon of blackberry juice. He gave it to me to make some wine with. Now the question. Is the blackberry juice strong enough to handle being diluted down? Think she made the juice like you would make it to make jelly. I am going to taste it and thinking about...

After almost 6 years, finally make it to post 4000. Been a great ride. Arne.

Wishing you all a merry and happy Christmas. We are going to be at home alone, the kids are going to the relatives on the other side. We will all get together a week from Saturday. Everybody travel safe and enjoy the time of year. Arne.

Nebraska Huskers womens volleyball team beat the Texas Longhorns last night to win the national championship.. Big party in Omaha last night. Pretty neat, the tournement was held in Omaha and Nebraska managed to get to the finals and win. Arne.

Made a batch of wild plum a few years ago. It never did clear and always had kind of a funny smell. Foreward to last year, my daughter brought a bag of wild plums. Didn't think there was quite enough so added some pie cherries I had in the freezer. Stuff cleared quite nice, came out with a...