The Saturday I was at Kelly and Bryan's enjoying our grandsons, the weather turned bad back home. They had high winds, rains, thunder and lightning. It fried some of the components in the tower that provides our Internet. Over a week ago the tech guys at DiggiCom checked everything out and said the parts needed replacing. Hopefully in another week the system will be back up.
My grapes came in. Unfortunately, I haven't finished preparing the vineyard. I think I may have over planned my vineyard. The research I did said that mucadines do not like to have their feet stay wet. I figured that with the East Texas red clay the farm sits on, the only way I was going to get this babies to grow was to give them a bed of lose sand clay mix. I started digging out the beds before I left for Katy. Muscadines need to be 20 feet apart. I figured that a bed about 3 feet wide by 3 ft deep should be about right. Since I ended up 6 vines and adding in the trellis system, I needed a bed 120 feet long.
Over about a week I got it dug. It's more like 2 1/2 feet deep. That was a lot of digging. Now, I am loading up the truck with sand from the creek. I haul to the vineyard and put an equal amount of clay and sand back in the trench. I am beginning to think I have gone totally off my rocker. I just keep on digging and imagine sweet those grapes are going to be in about 2 - 3 years. It will take me that long to recover. Only 110 feet of trench left to fill.
By the way, don't tell the boss I took a little time at work to write this.
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