We’ve been on spring break this week, and using the time to do some much-needed spring cleaning. We’ve noticed a couple things while doing this. 1) The more you clean, the more you notice that needs cleaning. After having cleaned for several days, my list of what needs to be cleaned/organized is now longer than it was when I started. Much of this will end up being summer cleaning! 2) If you put all your time into deep cleaning, and don’t keep up with the daily cleaning, then you can get to the end of a day of cleaning and have the house look worse than it did at the beginning. That’s kind of discouraging, although the truth is that then after doing the daily chores the house will suddenly look much better.
We took a break from the cleaning this morning to bottle our strawberry wine, which has been ready to be bottled for a little while now. I calculated that we would need twenty-five bottles, and brought them up last night. This morning we sanitized the bottles and equipment, and bottled the wine. We filled all the bottles, which somehow turned out to be only twenty-three, and ended up with some wine left over – probably about two bottles worth! Apparently I can’t count late at night. Oh, well, that’s still a pretty good result. Hopefully it will turn out well. We tasted it, but young wine doesn’t really taste very good. It will have to mature in the bottles for at least a couple of months before it will be worth drinking.
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That’s really neat that you are still making wine! Way to go, you guys.
I know what you mean about cleaning, too. It is so hard to keep up with the regular work on top of deep cleaning. But somehow we get through it.