The Dragonflies'Lair ~ Thread XLIX~

Poets of The Dragonflies' Lair | February 15, 2008 | Soaring Feather

[Soaring Feather]

My Dragon Fly and Me

If I could be a Dragon Fly
and wing my way through the sky
I would never be shy
just me and my Dragon Fly!

By moonlight we ride the wind
chase the comets tail for fun
by day we would hide from the sun
our fragile wings would come undone

On darkest nights we would use
fireflies as our guide
we would dip and we would glide
through the heavens open wide
and scatter diamonds in the night sky
my Dragon Fly and me...

And we would wing past our lovers
silent in the night...
to kiss their face in our flight
much to their surprise and delight
my Dragon Fly and me in sight...

Such a view do we share
away up here in the air
of breezes soft through our hair
my Dragon Fly and me a pair...

bentfeather©
2002

[Soaring Feather]

Yes, yours.

[tomkow6]

Chicago Poem 

It's winter time in Chicago
And the gentle breezes blow.
Seventy miles an hour
At twenty-five below. 

Oh, how I love Chicago
When the snow's up to your butt.
You take a breath of winter
And your nose gets frozen shut. 

Yes, the weather here is wonderful
So I guess I'll hang around.
I could never leave Chicago 
'Cause I'm frozen to the ground!

[Soaring Feather]

LOL! Did you write that??

[MEG33]

I love the "Chicago Poem"!

[tongue-tied]

I miss Chicago winters. Shoot, I think I pretty much missed winter this year. Had some cold, but nowhere near the snow I’d have liked to see.

[Soaring Feather]

Oh lovely and warm, guess I will snuggle up to this, Meg. Thanks.

[Lady Jag]

There is a great site, http://homedistiller.org/wash-sugar.htm with more info than you'd ever need but is simple to follow.

Home made alcohol is very safe, if you know what you're doing. The secret to distilling is knowing boiling points. Essentially all alcoholic bevreges are ethyl alcohol (ethyl-1-ol) and water with impurities. the impurities are the flavors to the drink, that is besides alcohol. The first step in making alcohol is to ferment a sugar-rich batter using yeast. After that you need to distill the batter to get the alcohol. When distilling you need a distilling apparatus and the very important thermometer. keep in mind that the liquids in moonshine have very different boiling points. The alcohol you want (ethanol) has a boiling point of 83 degrees farenheit. Methanol has a boiling point of 147 degrees farenheit. Water has a BP of 212 degrees farenheit. Ideally you must measure the temperature of the vapor NOT the batter. This is to assure that the stuff that is condensing on the other end is the alcohol.

[Lady Jag]

He don't need notbody to give hime burkas, Tomkow sells used Burkas.

He IS the Burka King!

[NY Attitude]

and returning to Ukraine so soon would probably kill me.

You hurt your back, didn't you?

[WayzataJOHNN]

LJ

Girl I LOVE YA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m getting the stuff to make the honey wine tonight!

Honey Wine

Makes 1 Gallon [US Gallon]

3 Pounds Honey - Any Kind [Just substitute maple syrup for the honey]
1 Large Lemon Juiced [Only use the juice]
1 Tablespoon very strong English Breakfast Tea
1 Large pinch of bread crumbs
1 Package of good wine yeast [”good” means a strong alcohol content]

Fill a pot half way with clean water [basically, if you can drink it, it tastes good, and you don’t get sick from it], and bring it to a boil. Turn of the heat and add everything except the yeast. Stir to mix everything real good. Let sit for 20 to 30 minutes [I assume uncovered, as this is what I have done and everything turns out fine]. After the wait, fill the pot to make one gallon, stir, and put into the bubbler [the fermenter with an air lock]. When the brew is room temperature, float the yeast [sprinkle the yeast - not mixing it in] and add the top [put the air lock back on the fermenter].

Let sit kicking away [producing CO2, or bubbling] for one month. After a month, pour [siphon] the green wine [fermented solution] into another bubbler [a secondary fermenter with an air lock you can get at a wine supply or off the net] and let sit until clear. Once it is clear [about 2 to 6 months] bottle the new [not aged] wine. Let the wine sit for as long as you can so the flavor will loose it’s bite [let the mead age for about 6 months to a year in the bottles].

[NY Attitude]

I have often thought of going back to that type of environment. Those places have a strange lure and I am not sure where I would fit in (employment wise) with any of those companies there.

[NY Attitude]

Just a minus 6, almost tee-shirt weather.

[NY Attitude]

afternoon tomkow. Have you had enough of the snow yet?

[tomkow6]

I find it MUCH easier to steal, ummm,BORROW Valady's personal vodka stash....

[NY Attitude]

Delicious JOHNN, I think that I will have seconds.

[SevenofNine]

Tomkow what I understand every time there is new Russian leader you going have BORROW vodka I am serious

So is it easlier to borrow the vodka just asking

[NY Attitude]

Afternoon MEG##. Hope that all is well.

[Lady Jag]

My pleasure! Wine making is fun. When we made it we experimented with different flavors. Some were winners and some weren’t, yet it was always fun to wait and see what we got.

[WayzataJOHNN]

I made some wine and we forgot about it in the basement for YEARS! One day we heard this ‘POP hiss’ and we went down stairs and there, from under the old cellar steps was a fount of wine pouring merrily on the floor. Only two bottles did this, and we decided to have some wine, figuring this was a fun thing to try, now realizing we had some long forgotten.
The stuff was lightly naturally carbonated, and it was tart, but it slipped down the gullet as smooth as the devil in velvet trousers! Thing is, this stuff was a ‘wee’ bit alcoholic, and by the time we’d drunk two bottles we were getting silly. By the fourth, we were wasted! This stuff was amazing, and sad to say we missed it as soon as we finished the last bottle!

[Soaring Feather]

Sure it is tee-shirt weather with long johns, and other warm woollies.