Festivus
Well summer is officially here. Carousel has passed. This year I was a wee bit disappointed by some of the villages but I still had fun.
I wish that some of the 'more exotic' villages could be found but the tried and true were all there. At least are having more dancers so that is good too. My hat goes off to the Scots as they had non stop entertainment and aside from the calling of the food it went off without a hitch ( I refused all the club draws but bought a bunch for the fiddich to send the dancer to the nationals). I still find the wee dancers doing the sword dance so cute. I'm just glad they aren't using real swords. Mumsy really liked going there on the last Sunday and the Yute now wants to be a piper. It looks like he will defect to the Scottish Society Band which is cool. I'm just really afraid of living with someone learning the pipes. I guess that is what alcohol is for.
Another new fest was the Ice Cream Festival held in Belle River. I just never knew Belle River could have a park like that. It really reminded me of Traverse City. No I wasn't on acid it was really nice. The festival was in its first year and was pretty good. I am really looking forward to next year.
At the fest Tso (aka Terry) and I found the trolley people whom I spoke of in my last post. They are doing exactly what I think should be done. I really hope it works as we really need something just like what they do. Just get more meta tags as I couldn't google them and or the Ice Cream Festival site. I can blame Tso for that as she helped get the trolley people their web site as they used her guy. Now I know why Rob always talked to me at length...he just stole my ideas and had terry get him his website designer. A conspiracy if I ever saw one. I just feel so used.
My/our cider is coming along very well. The second group is very dry, clear and red. The first is pineapple and very cloudy with a lot of pulp. I am low on alcohol but that is ok. BTW I fixed my MP 44 (juicer whiched I demoed making cider) tonight. Seems that all that work caused the mounting screws to back out and weld themselves to the power terminals. That accounts for the vibrations (no restraint so the motor was on its own) and sparks. Well new screws Loctite and solder has put the MP44 back where it was. It was built like a tank (probably a panther mk 4). A fine piece of German Engineering.
I've got to get back to the wineries, but in buying a certain wedding present ( a picked dozen of local wine ) I managed to buy 5 cases of wine so I am overstocked. Guess I will just have to drink more so I can come out to play again.
Wine review shortly.
