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Hobby Winemakers

After last week’s Montepulciano harvest, we gleaned the vines and have ended up with enough grapes to make 80-90 gallons of wine! Lest you worry that we…

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Montepulciano Grape Harvest 2012

Amazingly, it is the middle of September and we are almost finished with harvest – both the Roussane and Montepulciano grapes are finished! Our second…

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Pellenc 4560 Grape Harvester

I posted last week on Facebook that John and the boys were in California looking at a harvester – a Pellenc 4560 grape harvester. Well,…

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Unicycle Time Out!

I am afraid that I might have given the impression that all we do is work – in the  vineyard , gardening or building our house.  I assure…

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Visitors

The past two and a half weeks have been a wonderful whirlwind filled with visitors. Leaving family on the East coast has been the most…

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Coyote Update

Yesterday, (Thur 6-7-12) started off very exciting! It all started about 7:30am. Now I must confess that if I am not milking, I sleep until…

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Watch Out!

Beware all you drivers out there, we have a new automobile operator in our family! Our 16 year old daughter passed her driving test and…

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Unbelievable!

Our wonderful corgi named Bob, was gone! It was unbelievable! I have not been very prolific in my writing this week but our week got…

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Lolli

We have a new kitten, Lolli – short for Lollipop. She is half Siamese and I found her through craigslist – the “free” column, which…