Just a nice weekend

(more JAW Cooper here)

An eventful weekend.

This weekend had one of those somewhat rare (but not as rare as they used to be) April heat waves. So Ben, Wendy and I visited the Cambridge Science Festival where we fired water rockets, figured out how to shoot air, petted an alligator and saw different mutations of fruit flies. And other things. Much fun.

That night, I racked up the two red wines I've been working on. One will, hopefully, be a Concord grape port. The other is just a Marechal Foch red but exciting nonetheless since 2007 was the first year we had enough M/F grapes that we could make a wine rather than blending it with other grapes. We still have the 2008 Concord and M/F grapes to go through. I'm considering trying my hand at making a sherry.

Sunday, we hung out on the homestead and worked around the garden and such. Put in a fence. Examined the budding crab apples. Went to a party and then came home and made a red beer. Then, sleep.

Just a terrific weekend.

On another note, I finished re-reading Slan by A. E. van Vogt and I'm in the process of re-reading The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester. More on them, later.
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