In other news, however, I am now plotting to make my own wine this summer. I have watched some tutorials on YouTube and I am very shocked at just how cheap this can be. Basically I can spend about $30 it seems, and get me about 20 bottles of wine! Which is really insane, but really true. Essentially I can get an entire summer worth of wine for the price of 2-3 bottles at the wine store, and then, the other good part, is that much of this $30 is actually being spent on the tools that i'll be able to re-use the next time i want a batch. For example, the buckets, the funnels, and some other thing I don't remember. The only stuff you gotta pruchase over and over is the grape/apple juice, the sugar, and the yeast. All of this is pretty cheap. I have to say...I'm very excited. Who ever knew you could have such a good time with Welch's grape juice?
Last night i was drinking some "Real' wine however. I went out behind the house, to get eaten alive by mosquitos, and poured me 3 glasses whilst reading Moby Dick. I was introduced to the glorious Captain Ahab as I sipped this $20 bottle here. Then, too, I was reading a bit about the books author Herman Melville. He's another one i am meaning to do some scribbling on, when I am in the mood. Poor guy kind of had a hard life back ther ein the late 1800s. One of his kids actually commited suicide believe it or not. We authors/artists all make for bad parents, don't I always say? I never expected Melville (who seems vaguely conservative i guess) to have that kind of sad story attached to him. Crazy world!
Anyways, i bid you adieu now. This friend from Spain just can't seem to stop writing me...
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