Beneath the Wraps

          I spent the bulk of yesterday finishing pulling grapes off the stems and Roland smashed them all and heated them without boiling them and we made just over six gallons of concentrate.   We have two juices set aside for drinking.   He says we will turn the rest into jam, but that is what he said last year and we only made eight jars.   He found it irresistible not to drink it all.   It is really good and worth the mess.   boca grapes paper towel on stained counter cheese cloth top left side permanently attached cutting board     my shirt           About the title of my blog – well . . .   Roland and I had gone to bed late last night.   Late for us anyway.   Our automatic alarms did not go off at 5:00 a.m. I had told Jenna earlier this month that if there was no eviden...

            There is a couple in the stake who had moved into a house with lots of land.   The original owner had used some of the land was used to grow baco grapes.   When the couple moved in, he asked to continue with growing his grapes and maintained that part of the land.   He has now retired from maintaining the land.   It's not necessarily an investment the family was interested in and decided to invite all those who lived in the stake to come and pick as many grapes as we want.   These were offered for free.             So for family home evening, we loaded up the car with buckets, scissors, gloves and knee pads - though we did not need the latter.   The couple has grown into a family and had various children out in the orchard to direct participants on where to go and start cutting.  Cutting grapes off the vine was probably the ...