Bricks

Lucky to get your post, Beth, as it's "giveaway Weekend" here, and we had a couple of plastic bins to give away.  So we rushed out with them, and hope to see them gone, even if we were a bit late.  Bricks seem to move well in these events.  A couple of years ago we got rid of quite a few cinder blocks we had stored in the back yard forever.

P.s.  We put them out just before I started this, and by the time I was half way through, they were gone.  Hurray!)

Beth, are you not able to get some advice etc from a wine store?  David gets most of his help from the family that run the local "Wine Baril", that's been in the business for many years.  Our recipes, that work from juice or fruit, indicate that the wine is kept in the secondary (glass carboy or the smaller ones you may use) for a year or more, before you need to worry about bottles.  And white wines, such as those made from apples, use clear bottles, leaving the green or brown ones for red wine.  I'll send you a couple of the recipes we've used.  Of course, sometimes, you have to just take a method that works for one type of wine, and use it for another.  A bit of an experiment.

No plans for the weekend.  I hope to get some studio time in, and there's a washer load of towels to run through.  I'm looking for a way to clean my washing machine.  There is a "tide line" near the top of the agitator tub, and I want it gone!  At the same time, I don't want to think about having to get in there with the Magic Eraser and "elbow grease".  Ugh!  But I have ha hunch that's in my future.