With the footers and support walls finished, it is time to pour the concrete for the front porch. This is truly a family affair with John and the boys working well into the night to finish the concrete. That is what you get for being do-it-yourselfers.
If you have free-range chickens, you can probably sympathize with the embarrassment that having poop on your porch brings – ugh! Now, thanks to my chicken coop, there is no more poop on my porch. Complete with a clay tile roof it has five, easily accessible laying boxes! It is definitely one of the “little things in life” that bring pleasure to look at! No more can the chickens fly out and poop everywhere!
Four Season Gardening – here I come! The greenhouse is finished and I just feel the need to brag a bit. Yes, I may be weird, but I am excited about the work that is ahead of me. Winter veggies are planted inside and beginning to grow plus, I now have room to start my garden seeds without taking up every windowsill in our home!
We crushed Montepulciano grapes from the vineyard last year after harvest. Those are still in barrels but now it’s time to bottle the wine from the Montepulciano grapes from 2013. Wine making is a process that requires patience but bottling gives a chance to taste the progression of it!
The fellas traveled to California to see the Pellenc Precision Pruner in action. This baby will save us months of work and the fun they had on the trip was icing on the cake! Using an infrared eye, the Pellenc Precision Pruner does what we do hand pruning in a fraction of the time! Here are some photos of the sights they saw.
Hand painted ceramic tile murals from Spain are here! We have begun importing from a small family business in the Barcelona area that we found while living in Switzerland. These are beautiful and come ready to hang or the tiles may be removed from the backing and used in tile work.
There is something new around the farm, a Kubota 8540 narrow tractor! The New Toy I got a new toy! It is one you probably…
Making wine at home from montepulciano grapes is an exciting end to our vineyard harvest season and a fun end to our summer. Grape harvest…
One day, the plan is to open our own winery! So wine making at home is a great way to practise! Someday. But, not today!…
Here is a look at Oswald Vineyard in May/June 2014! A lot has happened in the past few months – we have a new milk…