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Well, I finally have something worth blogging about! :) lol

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Joe and I got together with his family and some family friends, and we picked some grapes! Just a few…

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… buckets of grapes!

We picked them from a semi local vineyard in about 45 minutes between about 10 of us, and we took them back to his parents’ house so we could crush and de-stem them. Not the I Love Lucy kind of crushing, but it was still messy and fun nonetheless. They have a machine that you crank the grapes through, and it takes the stems off and crushes the grapes at the same time. It’s pretty awesome. The whole process was pretty fun, and I suggest if you ever get the chance to pick and crush grapes, you SHOULD! :)

I don’t know the whole process, but I know it probably won’t get bottled until next year. It’s going to be exciting to try it, because I”m not much of a big wine drinker, but the grapes tasted pretty good. lol

Here’s a picture of me at the crusher…

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Here’s Joe working it, too…

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There are plenty more pictures to check out in my Flickr Set, if you’d like to take a look (seriously, I’m not posting all 60 pics. LOL), but I’ll leave you with one more for the road…

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Sep
05

I was on Twitter, and one of the trending topics is “Wordpress Users Must”. Being a Wordpress user, I had to check it out, and I found this interesting article. If you’re using self-hosted Wordpress, and you’re awful about upgrading like I am, take a few moments to check out your files and upgrade.

Off to upgrade the knitting site…

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Sep
05

For those of you who don’t know, I am a HUGE Nora Roberts fan. I love her books. The trilogies, especially the ones involving Ireland and/or magic, hold a special place in my heart, but her Eve Dallas series (by JD Robb, which is her pseudonym for the Eve Dallas series) is my favorite. I can’t explain it. I don’t know if it’s the whole futuristic element, or the relationships between Eve and the rest of the cast of characters that keeps me coming back. Maybe it’s because the books sometimes manage to still surprise me even though the basic formula is still the same. I just can’t wait to see what the group is going to do next.

Since I started knitting, however, I haven’t been reading as much as I would’ve done in my BK (before knitting) days. I miss reading, and even with the convenience of the Kindle app for my iPhone, I still don’t read as much as I would like. I’m getting better about it, but it’s hard to justify paying for books for my phone when I have shelves of them to still read through. This doesn’t stop me from downloading the freebies, though.. just the ones I’d actually have to pay for. ;)

Enter Promises in Death. This book actually came out in February, and I got it as soon as it came out, but things happened and for some reason I just never got around to reading it. I decided (for no real reason) to pick it up and start reading it, though, and I’m really enjoying it. I can’t wait to see how the story unfolds. Especially since the next one (Kindred in Death) comes out in November, AND I still want to read Black Hills. lol.

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I don’t know if any of you regularly read dooce’s blog, but if you don’t, you should check out her story about her washer fiasco. This, my friends, is the power of the internet.

Aug
27

I have no idea what happened. Someone somehow hacked into my email and send a bunch of spam from it.

I’ve changed my password and updated security questions and stuff, but I wasn’t even IN gmail when all the emails were sent, so i have NO idea how it happened or whatever.

If you got an email from my spamming about iphones, sorry. It was me, but not really. I do love my iphone, but I’m sure not going to spam you about it.

Aug
22

A public service announcement for all my friends and loved ones in Dallas:

Stay off the roads!
My sister is now a licensed driver!!

;)

Congrats, sis!