On October 25 1906 Captain H. Lawrence of the Peter Iredale was awaiting a pilot boat at the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington. The ship was under a British flag and was to pick up a cargo of wheat. On that day, there was heavy fog, wind, and a strong current
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Our driveway was flanked by a juniper something type of bush. It was ugly, full of spiders, and overgrown. We didn’t like it much but weren’t really sure what to do with it. This thing was so ugly, I had to dig back to photos of when we first moved in to find one. Did
A couple of weeks ago I posted an entry for Sweet Red Wine – Part 1. That post covered the set-up to primary fermentation using store-bought grape juice, sugar, and bread yeast (gasp – again with the bread yeast). The fermentation of the wine was done around the 18th of July. It had come down
