Owl and wine updates

Yeah! I went out this morning and heard a saw-whet owl - a new bird for me. I drove the road in Rist canyon in the darkness at about 4 a.m., and stopped at various turnoffs and got out and listened. At one point I heard one not too far away and walked down the road and got pretty close (I think, it's hard to tell how far away they are by the call only). Of course, I couldn't see it, but it was exciting anyway.

Mom and I checked our wine last night and the Specific Gravity reading was about .991 or .992, which means our wine fermented way faster than we expected. So fast in fact, that we are likely moving ahead to step three later today, which we had thought we wouldn't be doing for maybe 10-12 days. Ahh, the joy of a new hobby (and not really knowing for sure what you are doing...). But, the good news is we tasted it last night and it seems to be doing well. By our figuring it will have an alcohol content of about 11% or a bit more. We're already thinking of what we'll make for our second and third batches! And we are thinking of using the crawl space in Q's room as a storage area. Temps seem reasonable and it's kind of like a mini-cellar, about 3'x4'. We'll keep posting updates as the wine experiment continues.