It takes a village…..
to make a winery apparently. Today was our main harvest day where we harvested all the Petit Milo (that which becomes the Virga) and the Leon Millot (that which becomes the Quintage). It takes a pretty big crowd to ensure that we are able to get it done in a day rather than in a […]
Rumours!
I had the funniest/disturbing phone call tonight. Apparently someone has been talking about us. The phone call came from the owners of Emerald Coast Winery in Port Alberni who came to visit the winery yesterday. Apparently the person who is camping in the campsite next to them at Wee Wai Kai Campsite (someone living in an […]
Procrastinating…
As my list of things to do gets longer (vineyard, chickens, garden, kids, Glamper, Studio, housework, paperwork etc.), I start to obsess more and more about giving it all up and living in our Trillium, and travelling more….. I think it’s a sickness of some sort when we just got back from a major trip […]
Ru’s Paris
As we are kind of sucking at updating the blog, I thought it might be a bit amusing to see what a 2 year old can do with a cell phone camera. Surprisingly not bad. The camera on the S5 is quite good and most of our pictures from the trip were from it as […]
May 12-14 No pictures!
MAY 12 Our goal for today was modest in the extreme. Get some “authentic” french gifts at a local supermarket and get food for dinner at a farmer’s market next door. We had great success with part one, but the farmer’s market let us down as we were specifically seeking 2 items: White asparagus (which […]