1/5/22 – I bought three bags of apples at DeVoe’s Orchard the other day including two bags of macintosh-looking apples, then two of a more yellow big honey-crisp type. Two […]
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Nine Carries Canoe Route
The Nine Carries is an awesome canoe route in the Saranac Lake region of the Adirondacks. I had the weekend available after other attempts at plan-making never really materialized. Without […]
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Cider #12
9/14/21 I rode my bike to Hannaford and picked a bunch of nice apples from the tree in front of the supermarket. I squeezed 3 gallons of juice from apples […]
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Hartford Marathon 2021
If you rewind three months, I had planned to train to run the race in two hours and fifty minutes which seemed ambitious after not running much, but when I started training […]
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Cider #11
9/5/21 I ground apples from N’s brother-in-law J/M’s tree in Burnt Hills. Great apples – tons of wonderful juice! Made a bunch of unpasteurized cider that M and I drank. […]
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Wild Grape Wine 2021
I picked a small amount of local wild concord grapes and fox grapes. I removed the good seeds from the stems, rinsed in a colander, mashed in a pot with […]
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Concord Grape Wine #1
9/22/21 J offered me some grapes from his backyard, he had a huge bumper crop of concord grapes with plenty to spare. So I headed over and picked a “bunch” […]
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Fixing a Green Swimming Pool
Every year halfway through the summer, pool maintenance gets really tough, and by the time August rolls around the pool is green, I’m exhausted, and we have the pool closed […]
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Cider #10: Foggy Cider
This cider was an experiment to pasteurize the cider prior to fermenting, and adding hops during the pasteurization process. The short-term result was an opaque cider that looked like canned […]
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