Harvest is taking forever.....Already September and we only have three ferments.  Please all hope that the rains hold off until November ( Read more... )

 So I am about to embark upon my third week of (finally!) living in my own home.  It is bliss, let me tell you.  Quiet, peaceful and all mine ( Read more... )

I don't know if things are falling apart, or slowly on the way to healing.  Either way it is rather painful, frustrating and depressing.

Well, I am getting closer to success.....

So the feeling that I have been carrying around with me lately which is somewhat related to being over by a lorry was diagnosed yesterday as pneumonia. I am sure that all of you are just as thrilled as I am ( Read more... )

I have been in Germany for the past week, which has been fun and bloody cold. I have been spending time not only with the cultural sights of Berlin but also a good friend from high school who lived with me for a year which has been well worth the risk to toes and fingers that the snow and sub-zero C temperatures represent for a poor California ( Read more... )

Is it just a chemical imbalance? Is he totally drunk???? I am so sick of this!

I got it!!

I had a fantastic day at work today.  I was able to come in and first thing help out with digging out three red fermentors, which gave me a fantastic sense of satisfaction.  Afterwards I went to introduce an intern to barrel ferments and how to monitor them and in the process slipped on what I thought was a puddle of water and was actually a puddle ( Read more... )

Oi vey.  Family.  Issues.

Mergh.