From Home Improvement to Home Brew
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Sunday was no less busy than Saturday was. Man, what a busy weekend this had turned out to be. Because something is wrong with me, I cannot sleep in and woke up early again on Sunday. I decided to head downstairs and bottle up the beer that I brewed 3 weeks ago. This took about 2 hours or so (took longer than I had expected because it was my first time). I now have 45 bottles of lovely brown ale homebrew sitting in Envy’s room carbonating. I am supposed to wait about 2 before I can place them in the refrigerator but I am sure I will sneak one before then to give it a taste. This time is supposed to give them time to clear and carbonate properly. I cannot wait to taste one that is done carbonating and is nice and cold! The worst part about home brewing is the time it takes to drink them!
After bottling my beer, I grabbed the landscape lighting and headed outside to set them up. Damn did I under-estimate this job. I had no idea what I was getting myself into! We were placing one light on the left of the door, one on the door, and another one on the right side of the door. Since they are hardwired I had to run the cable underneath the sidewalk that is heading to the front door. Since my neighbor had done it I figured this would be fairly easy. Yeah … I was wrong. I tried digging two holes and spraying water in there to soften the dirt… didn’t work… By this time I was shoulder deep in the mud puddle that I had made and decided that I needed to head out to Home Depot. Looking like I dove in a watering hole I bought a PVC pipe and adapters to make the PVC pipe a “hose” by adding an adapter to attach the hose and a nozzle on the other end to direct the water. Since I took the Prelude to pick this up, I had to have the pipe sticking out of the sunroof of the car. It was interesting for sure. After about another hour or two of fighting with this contraption, I finally reached the other side and finished up the wiring and set it all up.
Once I showered and ate some food I made a deal with Alisha that I would go with her to make the curtain rods if I could brew my next batch of beer before we headed off to bed. We then got ready and headed out to buy the rods. Once we got home we had to “sew” the curtains to the extra fabric that we bought so that we could hang them in the living room. Alisha was SOOO happy with the results of our work. It really did come out great! Take a peek at the before and after.
After cleaning up the mess we made getting the curtains hung, I began to brew my next beer. It is going to be a Chocolate Espresso Russian Imperial Stout! I cannot wait for this one to be done. I hope it turns out as great as it sounds. After brewing and adding to the fermenter until midnight I pitched the yeast and we headed off to bed.
It was an excellent weekend and we really got a lot of stuff done. The house looks great!
