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Continue reading →: Samhain, Harvests and HalloweenA partial excerpt from Wikipeida: Samhain (pronounced /ˈsɑːwɪn/ SAH-win or /ˈsaʊ.ɪn/ SOW-in, Irish pronunciation: [sˠaunʲ]) is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the “darker half” of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from the very beginning of one Celtic day to…
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Continue reading →: Renovating: Final Plastering and Painting Around a WindowThis is a photos montage of the final rough plastering, skimming and finish plastering, and paining of a wall around a small window in our house. Another DIY project. I did all this work myself. 🙂
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Continue reading →: 2016 Harvest and Crush — Not QuiteThis has indeed been an unusual year. I hope. That is, I hope this year is not the start of a new trend in the abnormal. Because indeed abnormal it has been. We picked and crushed our Turán and Pinot Gris last month. And both have already been racked into…
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Continue reading →: Finding Old Renovating Photos
I was going through some paperwork recently, and I stumbled upon some old photos of the early days when we started renovating our house. These photos are at least 15 years old, of course were not digital, and thus done the “old fashioned way”: printed from film onto paper. …
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Continue reading →: Three Grapes
I have mentioned before that one of our vineyards is rather eclectic in its distribution of vines varieties. So below is an image from this vineyard of three different vines in the same row, from back to front: Pinot gris, Turán/Agria, and Italian Riesling. Can you spot the different grape…
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Continue reading →: Firewood and Proper Use of a Moisture MeterIf you heat with wood, you may have bought a moisture meter to help you decide if your wood is dry enough to burn. But you may be using that tool in a way that is not providing you with full, complete and correct information. The first thing to consider…
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Continue reading →: In Case You Missed ItI was interviewed as part of the “Wine Chat” series at The Wine Culturist in June.
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Continue reading →: Climate, Weather, and When to HarvestOn this date last year, we were busy harvesting our Turán (Agria) grapes. A warm 2015 August gave the grapes a decent Brix of 20, and we decided to harvest at that time as the weather was rapidly cooling with rains approaching. This year, the month on August is almost…
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