Saturday was pretty uneventful...hung at the house most of the day...too wet to do much of anything outside.
Sunday has been a beautiful sun filled day. After the rain yesterday, today is a welcome sight indeed! The yard still has standing water and I'm looking at just how fast the grass is growing. All this water is sure loved by the grasses and weeds that make our yard look green.
The temperatures today topped out around 90...felt like 100 with the humidity and the steam from the moisture being sucked up from the ground....
Hubby decided to get the weedeater out and attack the high stuff the mower can't get to for one reason or another...usually because you can't tell what may be under the mound of grassy growth!
We're heading to our friends' home in just a bit to talk a bit more about the possibility of us renting their other house...I've got a new bottle of mead...honey wine...to share and try out...its Raspberry and chocolate...mmmmm, slurp....haven't tasted this one yet, but my buddy who makes it says its awesome. Having tried several varieties he makes, I'm sure it will be most excellent, just like the rest!!!! Chocolate cherry mead has to be one of my favorites, so I'm sure the Raspberry chocolate will be another.
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Mmmm, I bet those things smell good when they're brewing.
ReplyDeleteHe has a small setup in a room in his house and what facinates me are the beautiful colors of the different mead combinations. I've only seen it in the glass fermenter thingy he has, not been around him when he first starts.
ReplyDeleteBut, oOOOOHHHH, how nice the first tastes!! Haven't found one yet that I haven't absolutely loved and honestly, I'm not much of a drinker at this point in life, maybe once in a blue moon we decide to buy a bottle of rum and have a bit of 'spiced rum tea'...yummm. Got in that habit when the kids were young and we couldn't keep a soda in the house. Tea was always available, and mixed surprisingly well with the Captain..
Oh, boy, I hadn't even thought about the colors. I bet they're rich and lovely, like jewels.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I haven't tried spiced rum tea. That sounds interesting. We make Hot Toddies around Thanksgiving and Christmas when we have guests, but your idea sounds much less artery-clogging. LOL!
Oh for holidays you can really dress it up...hot cider with cinnamon sticks add the rum at the end...oooohhhlllaaalaa!!
ReplyDeleteWe use Captain Morgan Spiced Rum...used to be a Bacardi snob and would only drink Bacardi Spiced Rum...but the Captain mixes so much smoother with the iced tea, the hot tea and the cider...excellent Halloween cocktail for the adults, hot or cold they are both awesome...dab of whipped cream and shaved chocolate, just a touch...yummm
Makin my mouth water thinking about those tastey drinks...hahaha
The colors are so deep and clear by the time I've seen them and you are so right about them looking like jewels...such depth could not be captured easily with a camera, its an in person kinda thing to see.
OMG. So much for less artery-clogging! Just a dab? Are you kidding? You'd be asking me if I'd like some tea and rum to go with my whipped cream and chocolate. Haha! *drool*
ReplyDeleteHahaha, ok, now you sound like me...love the whipped cream. Funny story...at Thanksgiving when my son was little I would always buy Redi-whip...one for each pie I made....and one for me. Taught my boy how to 'eat' Redi-whip from the can...gawd, how I adore that stuff even now....slurp. He likes it too, and he's in his 30's now.
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