4 Gallon batch 2/20/26 8 lbs Frozen strawberries from Walmart (2 4lb bags) Thawed with Pectic Enzyme (1 TBlsp) berries in 2 buckets and mashed 2/21/26 I’m doing this in 2 buckets so it’s 1 recipe for both. Each bucket gets the same recipe. 4 lbs honey 2 gallons water Strawberries 1 Tsp Fermaid-O Mangrove …
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John Marrs ~ The Passengers
Started on 5/1/26. This was TikTok recommended best book. I’m 22 chapters into the book. It took a while to get to the “meat” but now that I’m there I don’t want to stop reading. I’ll let you know when I finish. Finished on 5/10/26. 9 Days!! The meat of the book was great. It …
Kate White ~ Have You Seen Me?
I started this book on 4/21/26 and hope to finish by EOM. So far I like it. I’m about 5 chapters in. Finished on 4/28/26. 7 days. You lose 2 complete days of your memory. You show up to a job that you haven’t had in 5 years. It’s called a “Fugue State”. To fill …
Lucinda Berry ~ Keep Your Friends Close
Started this book on 4/11/26 (Vacation book). Finished on 4/19/26. If I wouldn’t have been on vacation I could’ve finished this book in 3 days. It was really good. Story around a group of Moms. One of them gets murdered at the “Mom’s Only” party. Who did it and why? All the secrets come out …
Riley Sager ~ Survive the Night
Started this book on 4/1/26. Chapters are kind of long. Characters are well written and the story line is suspenseful. Charlie loses her best friend to the Campus Killer. She’s leaving school early and needs a ride home back to Youngstown, OH. The ride share board where she’s looking she meets Josh (or Jake) willing …
Freida McFadden ~ The Devil Wears Scrubs
Started this book on 3/26/26 and finished on 4/1/26. Yes 6 days. It’s Kendra’s work life. Mean boss, always putting down. Others can do no wrong but she puts down this one intern down all the time. This book was good, the ending was kind of meh! Chapters were short and I knew who everyone …
Freida McFadden ~ One by One
Just finished “Do You Remember” by Freida so I’m sticking the train and reading this one next. Starting on 3/21/26. Finished on 3/24/26. Yep 3 days. Claire a mother of 2 and wife for 10 years is starting to hate her husband. She’s having a fling with her husbands best friend. 6 friends book a …
Freida McFadden ~ Do You Remember?
Just read Brain Damage by Freida (then a Davenport book) but I hope this one is as good. Started on 3/13/26. Finished on 3/20/26. Yep 7 days. Groundhog day except you forget what happened the day, week, month before. She started a small company that grew to a multi-million dollar corporation. Her husband wanted control …
MRM ~ Apple Love Supreme
1 Gallon Batch 8/29/25 3/4 gallon fresh cider 1/4 Gallon GV Apple Juice 2 Green Apples 3 Gala Red Apples 1/2 packet 71B yeast Mixed all ingredients, cut apples and added. S.G. = 1.052 (~6% ABV) 10/29/25 Racked off apples and yeast. Stabilized 1/31/26 Added 1/4 blueberry flavoring from Ikea and about 1/2 pound honey …
John Sandford ~ Mortal Prey (Book 13)
Started on 2/26/26 Finished on 3/12/26 (13 days) Already read 1 Prey book this year. It was really good so I’m hoping this one is too. Rinker, the hired killer, was targeted along with her husband down in Mexico. They hit her in the belly, bullet went through and killed her husband. She’s pissed. Lucas …