I spent the better part of this weekend working on the flooring in my dinning room.  I love it and still need to finish a bit more on the step.  Taking a break for now – I can hardly walk my thighs are burning so bad!!!! LOL

I’ve finally pulled the trigger on flooring for my dinning room floor.  I ordered this through Home Depot and it’s called Rustic Grey Oak http://tinyurl.com/meekeo3 . It’s done it’s time acclimating soooooooo looks like I’m working on flooring Saturday!

This is the dinning room wall that I’ve also put off doing.  I just can’t decide on what wall treatment to do, so I just painted it for now.

I do love my “Melted Butter by Behr” paint color!  Now onto flooring.

Looks like a surgical table, lol.   It’s time to add the clarifying stuff.  We used the tubing to transfer the wine from the carboy to the bucket.

But FIRST, time to taste!  And let me just say – it is stinkin’ yummy!  So smooth and a bit fruity.

This is the degassing tool attached to a drill.  After adding the clarifying stuff (which all comes in your wine kit) it’s time to beat it.

Carbon dioxide is left in the wine after fermentation. If you don’t “degas” your wine it can end up being carbonated, it won’t clarify properly and it can increase the sensation of acidity.  So whip it, whip it good! LOL (can’t help myself)   We siphoned  the wine back into the carboy for another couple of weeks and then it’s time to BOTTLE!!!!! Yahoo

I trimmed out the pocket door & the shower entrance  in my bathroom over the weekend.  Now I can finish the floor boards, fill the nail holes, caulk and paint.  Hoping to get ‘ur done this weekend.

This is my garden door.  It’s on the west side of my barn and there’s a little room behind it that the previous owners used as their dog room.  I had it sheet rocked and peg boarded and now I use it as my garden room.

I removed the dog door and the metal from the door.  I bought an exterior siding panel from Home Depot and had them cut it to size.

I had 16″ of paneling left over so I cut it into 4-3″ strips and used it for trim.

I used Liquid Nails and my nail gun to attach the panel and the trim to the existing door.

Caulked and painted it.

It just looks so much happier now! 😉

This is the light fixture I had in the pantry and moved to my Coffee Corner.  It actually matches the light fixture over my sink and my huge light over my butcher block in the kitchen (all donated by my bestie Sherry in Cali!)  They were an off-white and I spray painted them red, love!  Thanks Sher!

Anyone want to have a “Fairy Garden” Challenge????? I could totally ramp it up if I need too! LOL

I finally got my gingham cabinet knobs on in my new Pantry – so cute!  I found them at Hobby Lobby and they’re 1/2 off this week, here’s a link: http://tinyurl.com/zxxv4dd.  Many more things to do in the pantry . . . paint bottom cabinets, paint ceiling, change light fixture, finish bead board, re-do flooring!  Take a breath (talking to myself), one step at a time!

Phase II begins, BUT first Maurene & I need to do a taste test! LOL  It actually wasn’t bad – a little fruity and a little thin/watery.  Maurene said it will change so much in the next phase.  

Phase II begins with siphoning it out of the first stage fermentation bucket and into the “carboy” for 2nd stage fermentation.  Totally looks & smells like wine, LOL.

Time to add the “Malolactic Acid” & the “Oak Spiral”.   The Malolactic will convert the tart-tasting malic acid, naturally present in grape must, to softer-tasting lactic acid. (I clipped that last sentence from Wikipedia, obviously.)  And the oak spiral will add some flavor.

Ready for Phase II fermentation!  Bubbler thing in – blanket on – 30 more days til Phase III.