Weekend Before Europa Trip

Super Greeny, Moms, and myself are heading to Vienna, Austria next week.  Before leaving there were some very important matters that needed attended to - mainly - picking raspberries, making raspberry wine, and racking our other wines.  Curt, Winger, and myself ran to Snyder's Berry Farm to pick some raspberries (no pics), and then Curt and I completed a wine trifecta for the day.

Here's a picture of Curt cleaning the carboy preparing for our strawberry wine to be racked in to:

The strawberry wine had been in the primary fermentor for 2 weeks.  It's now resting with less sediment in the secondary glass fermentor.

The far right carboy houses our Strawberry Wine.  The pink hue gives me the feeling that we'll be sipping with our pinkies raised while watching double rainbows - but it smelled awesome.  

The middle carboy is full of our orange wine, which we racked into the empty carboy.

The "Ale Pail" was cleaned and sanitized for our raspberry wine. 

Here's an up close look at the Strawberry Wine:

We now have Strawberry, Raspberry, Orange, Small Orange, Dandelion, and Apple Weis made and aging.  Next year at this time is going to be unreal.

Quick garden update.  Our little peppers on the back patio got munched:

Here's what they used to look like:

If I catch the culprit, they're gonzo.

Here are a few of the potted plants.  The tomato plant is in the back.  A pepper triforce is in the back to the right.  Zucchini and Long Neck Squash are in the pots in the front:

After a long, hard day of picking, gardening, and wining - here is Curt, Winger, and myself enjoying a few beers (Curt and I) while watching some fireworks.  

Keep it real cherry pickers.