Vineyard End Posts

My brother and I installed end posts for the trellis rows at the vineyard.  These allow for the trellis wires to be tightened.  The wires are now taunter than ever before.  This will help facilitate putting the drip lines in for irrigation.

6-2012 reading

A few months back, I read through Night Watch, Making Money, and Snuff.  All by Terry Pratchett.  Good reads, though I think i'm off my Pratchett kick for a while.

Dry Summer

Apparently this summer is even drier than the previous one.  According to the weatherman, this summer has been the driest since 1957.

Roasted Vines

The vineyard project has been roasted out.  The dry farming experiment is officially over.  While we may continue with the vineyard, it will require some sort of regular watering.   That infrastructure might arrive in a future project.

As it is, the vines have no growth this year, as it hasn't rained much in the last month.  As you can tell from the photo below, everything is a nice toasty brown, and this is just the beginning of July.

Hawaii 2012

Melissa and I went to Hawaii for a little over a week.  We had a wonderful time staying at Kialua bay, on Oahu.  We kayaked, snorkeled, swam in the ocean, walked on the beach, went to Pearl Harbor, visited Wikiki, and generally had a wonderful time.

With photos!

Discworld Reading

I've had a bunch of novels that i've read through in the past few months.  They've mostly been Terry Pratchett books.  Such good reads as Thud!, The Fifth Elephant, Jingo, and Going Postal.  I must say, I do enjoy Pratchett's writing style and humor.  I often find myself laughing at the hilarious situations and characters and wit in the books.

Spring Vines

We visited the vineyard last weekend.  The rain has been good and it looks like the vines are getting ready to bud out.  We added some dirt around a few vines, where the dirt had sunk.   Some of the wood posts that we have the grow tubes attached to, the ones that the vines will climb, were getting eaten by insects.  Hopefully the posts will last until next year.