Monthly Archives: July 2015

Vineyard July 25 & 26 2015

Well, the Japanese beetles came back very hungry. Since I can only spray on the weekend when we’re there, it gets washed off during the first rain and allows the beetles free rein.  So, I sprayed again and we’ll see how it goes. Most of the vines are doing great, with 21 out of 24 vines

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Vineyard July 3,4,5

We had a nice relaxing weekend for Independence Day with my Mom & Dad coming to spend the weekend with us. We were able to go to a concert at Crane Creek and fireworks at Meeks park. The weather was very rainy but cooperated nicely by raining in the morning and early afternoon and then

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June 25&26 2015

This weekend in the vineyard I was horrified to see that Japanese Beetles had infested the vineyard and turned several grape leaves into lacy remnants of their former selves. See the pics below. They seem to prefer the Nortons. I plucked and killed several of the evil little bastards, but there were a couple that

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Epic Hike Postponed

My oldest son Matt and my son in law Justin and I had an epic hike planned for this weekend, but thunderstorms were predicted and we thought it best to cancel. We were going to hike the Benton MacKaye trail from Hwy 515 over to Skeenah Gap. That’s about 21 miles and we were going

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