by rakeeter Today was harvest day at SA vineyards. 
Joyce and I got started right after breakfast and were ready to start the crush by 11:30. Last year we used Abigail and Rebecca but we felt they were just too light to do a good job so this year Kari agreed to do it for us. We dumped the grapes into a big wash tub in the man-cave and Kari got after it. Continue reading “Grape Harvest”
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by rakeeter Joyce and I struck the first blow in the battle against sock weeds on SA today. These are grassy weeds whose seeds stick in one’s socks causing discomfort and they’ve gotten entirely out of hand the last few years. They sprout in winter and are hardly noticeable until the first balmy days of spring and then they are all over everywhere, impossible to deal with by hand and immune to broadleaf weed killer. Continue reading “Sock Weeds”
by rakeeter I kid thee not, 3/8 inch of rain Tuesday evening. Dangedest thing I ever saw. A little cloud came up out of the north and gave us a nice little shower as we ate dinner. ‘course Joyce couldn’t just sit back and enjoy it like me. She had to dance all over the kitchen and living room worrying about that silly Max dog getting wet. I wanted to jerk a knot in her tail but I realized her protective instinct might come in handy in my dotage so I just ignored her and enjoyed this freak of nature. Don’t try to tell me prayers always go unanswered. Continue reading “Shower of Rain”
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