This is just a little personal catch up post. Wasn’t intentionally taking a break from the blog, but working on winter projects has taken up mucho time. Super cold here lately in the first days of the new year. I love winter here at the lake. It turns into a bird sanctuary with bald eagles, seagulls, geese and ducks.
We had good holiday family time. My son’s big doggie looked cold so Grandma made him a sweater. I don’t really have a solid pattern to share because I figured it out by looking at some dog sweater crochet patterns, and then freestyling it. Luckily, I had him here for a few days to custom craft it to his big great dane body. My son said I made him look like Clifford.
Then our two goldens needed sweaters…
Next project was making juice from the last of the frozen fruit from the garden and I homecanned about 48 quart jars (there’s a post here somewhere on here about my superjuice.)
And then I finished and bottled two of four batches of wine I’ve had aging in 6 gallon carboys for almost a year. The fruit came from my garden and the wine is completely organic. The two batches yielded 44 bottles.
I’ve been dying to use a new wine filtering system my husband gifted me last summer. Filtering can clean out any remaining yeast and particles and can smooth out the flavor. This was a batch of home grown grapes using Montrachet yeast.
I am now a fan of filtering. It did a great job. 
I’ll be back in the saddle soon with some new insights I’ve been getting while I working on my projects.