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Labels, the finishing touch

The labels designed by our Daughter arrived today, so we were able to add the finishing touch to our first bottled batches. Of course...

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First Batch into the Cellar

Yeah!! Finally, our first batches are in the Cellar. Well, actually its just our basement, but tempature is perfect and we have these...

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Bringing the Acid levels up

Went and had our wines tested at the Purple Foot this weekend. We got great ratings but they did recommend we bring the acide levels up...

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Meet Alex...our Awesome German Shepard

Meet the love of our life, Alex! At not quite 2 years old he is the sweetest dog we have ever owned. He came into our lives at a time...

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Anyone know a good Podiatrist?

Noticed that something didn't look right with Samson's foot about 4 days ago and today he was finally sunning that foot and I got a pic....

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Molting already?

Not even with us a month yet and the Swans are growing so fast. They both have started thier fall molt and as you can see Delilah's new...

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Woodland Apples

We have 5 apple trees int eh orchard non of which produced usuable fruit this year. But then out of no where a cute lone tree by the...

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Peaches & Pears...Ohh My

Over the last two days we picked, clean and froze over 24 pounds of peaches and pears. Incredible!! Can't imagine what we will get next...

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Peaches, Peaches and more Peaches

Wow, shocked at how many peaches we pulled off the trees today. Even more shocked about how many are left to pick.

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Mother Nature's Humor

Definitely something you have to see to believe. This is an ice sculpture Mother Nature created with our aerator in the middle of the...

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Installing a Sump Pump in the Pond

I kid you not, yesterday we installed a sump pump in the pond. After trying to run a hose with warm water from the house, installing a...

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Sure looked like we could swim here

Thaw, Freeze, Thaw, Freeze...this is all so confusing. Samson leading the way on a walk around the pond for shore areas of open water. ...

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Nightmare become reality

So my hubby and I came down this morning for our normal before work walk with Alex. It was still dark so as usual we have flashlights...

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Raining & Flooding

The Pond level rarely changes but it has been raining so hard and just warm enough to create a huge mess, we had to turn off the pumps...

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You can't make this up

My amazing Hubby trying to clear ice to get a better flow from the pumps and open up more water. The Swans are definitely enjoying all...

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Everyone keep your humor...

....because if you don't we are going to cry. Nothing brings a smile to your face then a very happy Swan doing a little dance after...

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Can this get anymore Insane?

Serioulsy, this is what I came down to for the last 7 days. Terrifying to think we have two sump pumps and two aerators going and we can...

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Indoor Dock Building Anyone?

With the anticipation of days in the 50's this week we decided we needed to start immediately on what we hope is part of our permament...

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Snow Day

Amazing how clean and beautiful the snow can make everything. You'd never know we've been chopping ice and managing pumps daily to keep...

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Power Move...oh My

The insanity of the situation doesn't stop. Needed to move the power cords to the other side so we could run it up to the house in order...

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