I didn't have my photos of the muscadines I picked. Today I worked on starting some wine. Pictures of it will come later. But to give you an idea of how to begin. I smushed up the muscadines and put in some crocks that are about a half gallon size. I added a cup of water to each crock along with a cup of sugar and stir well. Covered them with clean pantyhose and put on the top of my refrigerator to ferment. 

Once they go through the first ferment cycle, I sill strain and put juice back in crocks with more sugar and let it ferment again.

While Sonny was recovering from surgery I bought a Shark steam mop and man do I love this thing. It makes it so much easier to mop floors now.

It is well worth the money spent. 

Also while Sonny was recovering I slept on our sofa for about 3 weeks. The last night on the sofa, I got up while still dark and walked to shut the bedroom door so I wouldn't wake him when I turned on lights. I ran into our laundry room door which has a stop in it to keep it open so I blacked my eye and made a knot and huge bruise on my boob. Thankfully the bruising is gone now but still have the knot. 

Really at first it looked like eye shadow.

I guess I'm getting old as I tend to wander around at night which is not good. While taking Kinzey out early one morning, I saw this little critter. 

At first I thought it was a bird nest, but it happened to be a little wren. See him in the faux grass on the left side of photo. I had been watching a large spider but the rains had washed it out so found this cutie instead. 

I will be back later next week and will start posting photos of junk journals I'm in the process of making. I'm having so much fun making such a mess. 

It has been another long time since I've posted. Been too busy with life. Sonny had one of his knees replaced. And he has done marvelous. Has really gotten back to walking and doing around the place and it has only been 5 weeks. He has his other knee scheduled for December. It has taken all my energy with helping him. 

We had to let the outside yard work and garden go as I can't physically handle it. Also with late freeze and June drought our fruit and garden harvest were awful this year. Only fruit we got was about 1/3 the blueberries we normally get. Strangely we got an over abundance of muscadine grapes.

We got our German shepherd in December. She was born on Halloween and is fitting as she can be such a monster at times. She is now 10months old and weighs 80+ pounds. We had her spayed at the spay clinic in July and it seems to have settled her some. She is still a handful though. 

The first bed we bought her, she shredded.

We keep her outside during the day and in her crate at night.

I've not hooked a rug in over a year now but have mainly worked on quilts. I've made 2 baby quilts for gifts for young couples in our church. And finally finished the star top and have it at the quilters to be quilted. I hand tied the baby quilts. I also hand quilted 2 star baby quilts with left over blocks from my big quilt. 

We were rather busy with church this past year as well. Sonny was teaching Wednesday night Bible study and I was doing a weekly ladies Bible study at our house. But with Sonny's surgery, we ended our work at church. The church had their annual elections and we both stepped down. I am continuing to make the bulletin each week and help the children teachers when needed. I hope to get here more often and post more.