Grape Hill is a family journey as much as it is our lovely farm. Part adventure, lots of learning, more perseverance, and a deep desire to nurture something that lives for generations. Will we ever build a winery? Who can say? For now, we have electricity, abundant water, Little Vineyard, Big Table, our VW Pop-Top house, and mile upon mile of wide-smile views from our 100 acres of Walla Walla beauty...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Busy busy fun.
I choose this color for Spring is in the air. Carlos and Ricardo and their families have just finished pruning the vines and David is going to weed the roadway up to the house. I'm sure hoping that Sue's Girls' Weekend coming up is great fun for her and her buddies. How could it be otherwise? This is going to be her first time ever without me. Between construction and the vines and tending the fields, I may have spent as much as two months on my own, but this is a first. We decided not to have our "Farmhouse Weekend" this year, but we will both be faithfully back together for Balloon Weekend. By then, I'm hoping that we will have in the new windows, too! The outside shower and other advances will follow during the summer. Big Table will see lots of sunsets, wood fires, and light of every shape and color reflected off cheerful wineglasses.
Family, real estate, great friends and good wine have been sustaining me well for 25 years.
Grape Hill is the first home I ever designed from scratch...right down to where to put the well and pour the foundations. Now THAT is one wild bit of fun!
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