
Busy planting grapes…

Busy planting grapes…
This is what my living room looked like until this morning. Very used and much loved.
We are into the thick of grape harvest at the moment, but first a little look at how we begin our harvest planning for our grapes. How do we get grapes from here… to the winery that will make them into wonderful Texas wine?
Vineyard clusters blooming at Bingham Vineyards
Sometimes I wonder. I have so many different hats, so many different jobs. There is My Honey, children, grapes, cotton, music, symphony, children, youth symphony, home school group, friends, family, did I say children, homeschooling, meals, children’s tennis, entertaining, church friends, accounting work, cleaning house, laundry, taking children to music lessons, etc.
Yes, I said hail, not freeze. We seem to be so preoccupied with late spring freezes that we forget about the other hazards of growing grapes on the High Plains. Hail being one of them. During the last rain which we had on Sunday morning on the 25th, we had hail some hail. Cliff went…
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