No whining! Only wining.

We finally have our first 'batch' of wine from our own grapes!! Woohoo! We tasted a bit of it, not too much or we'll just want to keep sampling, and loved it. It's so great to know that the wine is from the grapes on our own property! These grapes were planted 4 years ago and they're called Seyval grapes, a white grape. We'll bottle them this weekend with some friends of ours. We should get around 30 bottles. We can have alot of fun with that!! In the mean time Marshall is working on fixing up the winery which will be in our former 3 car garage.I'll upload some pictures soon. In the meantime heres what those Seyval grapevines looked like when we first planted them.

Spring Cleaning!

As much as I love the winters here in New England I'm always excited to clean out the alpacas pens when the temps warm up. After 4 months or so of piling on new bedding, cleaning out the poop, and the ducks and goats wondering around, if you know what I mean, they really all need cleaning out. So a couple of days ago Marshall and I spring cleaned! Woohoo! We cleaned the entire barn! While Marshall was hauling out the old bedding and bringing more sand and dirt in I was busy cleaning the water buckets, cleaning out the smaller parts of the pen that our tractor, and Marshall, can't get to, sweeping, and putting things where they belong. Can I tell you how good it feels to know its done?! I mean, I know it'll get dirty again, but at least for a couple of days when I go up to the barn it's all in order. Ahhhhhhh. Know what I mean? I decided to put my skirting table in a part of my store so I can clean last years fleece. Yep, I still need to do that. More on that on another day.